Measurement History
Every change to a customer's measurements is kept with the name of the person who made it and the day they made it. This is where to find it, what the clock icon is telling you, and how to read what it shows.
What it records
History is written whenever a measurement value actually changes. That covers typing a new value into the measurement form, letting Connected Measurements overwrite a set of fields, the automatic fill of still-blank linked fields when you have Push Connected Measurements switched on, and saving or clearing a try-on size. Values written for you that way are marked, so they are never mistaken for something a person typed.
It records the field, the value before, the value after, who saved it and the day. It does not record fabric, style or design choices, customer photos, or anything outside the measurement form. Placeholder saves that leave a field blank create nothing, and a save that changes no value creates nothing either.
Everything on the form is covered, not only numbers: sizes, dropdown options and the write-in note beside them, yes/no answers, dates, alteration types, free text, Height and Weight, and the try-on size. Photo fields are the one exception. They are never recorded.
Height and Weight are a special case. The first time they are entered is not listed, since every customer gets them filled in on day one and that is not news. Only a later change to them shows up.
Where to find it
Four ways in, all marked by the same clock icon. Each one opens the history for exactly what you were looking at. See whose history below.
At the end of every measurement row, after Edit and Rename. It is always there and always opens, even for a set nobody has changed yet. In that case it reads No measurement history yet. with a line underneath saying changes are recorded from now on.
The Master Measurements button is in two halves. The name on the left opens the form. The clock on the right opens its history, and is greyed out until the master measurements have been changed at least once.
Sits with the row's other icons, before the three-dot menu. Greyed out until that garment has history. A garment that covers several garment types at once has one clock and one history, with each garment type listed in turn.
Appears at the end of a field's row once its value has been replaced. Hover it for that field's recent changes. See one field at a time below.
The clock beside a field only appears once a value has been replaced. A field filled in for the first time gets no clock, so a row without one has not been changed since it was first entered.
What the clock is telling you
The clock on a garment row and on the Master Measurements button has three looks. Hover any of them and a small label says which one you are looking at.
Greyed out. Nothing to show yet. Nobody has entered measurements for this garment, or the master form has never been changed. The label reads Measurement History (None Available).
Dark. There is history to open. Click it and the full list comes up.
Dark with a red dot. A measurement has been changed since it was first entered. What exactly the dot is warning you about depends on where it is, below.
The dot on a garment row
A measurement has been changed since this garment's numbers were captured. Captured means when the garment was locked, or if it has not been locked yet, when it was added to the order. So the order may be carrying numbers that are no longer the customer's current ones. It is a nudge to look before the order goes out.
Locking the garment captures the numbers as they stand and clears the dot. It comes back only if something changes again after that.
The dot on Master Measurements
At least one master measurement has been changed since it was first entered, at some point. There is no order to measure this against, so this dot does not go away. It simply tells you the master set has been revised.
One field at a time
Open a customer's measurements to edit them and look along any row. A field whose value has been replaced carries a small clock at the end of the row. Hover it and a short list drops down: the most recent changes to that one field, newest first, each with the day, who made it, and the value before and after.
Chest has been changed three times by two people. The link icon on the newest entry means Connected Measurements wrote that value rather than a person typing it.
The list holds the five most recent changes to that field. For anything older, or to see every field at once, click View full history at the bottom. It opens the full history for the garment or master form the field belongs to.
For a body profile field such as posture, View full history opens the history of the first garment on that form. Body profile answers are shared by every garment from the same manufacturer, so they sit at the top of each one's list.
Reading the full history
Each card is one person on one day. The name and date stay pinned at the top of the card while you scroll its changes. The newest day comes first, and when two people worked on the same day their cards sit in alphabetical order by first name. Every recorded day is listed, right back to the day the feature went live.
The line under the title names what you are looking at: the customer, then the manufacturer and garment type, then the fit profile when there is one. Opened from the Master Measurements button it reads Master Measurements where the manufacturer would be.
Opened from a jacket on an order. Body profile answers come first because every garment from that manufacturer shares them, then the jacket's own fields in the order they appear on the form: try-on size, then the rest. Where a form has tabs, each tab's fields are grouped under its name.
When there are a lot of changes
A day with eight or more changes opens folded: 15 measurements were updated. with a View Measurements button. Click it and the full list loads in place. Days with seven or fewer are listed straight away.
Dates read Today and Yesterday for the two most recent days, and fall back to your account's normal date format before that.
What each part means
The measurement type carried by the field, shown next to its name so a skin measurement is never mistaken for a finished one.
An allowance field. Both sides read as 15.5+0.5=16, so you can see whether the skin measurement moved, the allowance moved, or both.
How far the number moved, green for up and red for down. Allowance and try-on adjustment fields are measured on their totals, not on one half. Sizes, options and notes get no difference, because there is nothing to subtract.
The value was written by Connected Measurements rather than typed by hand: either the overwrite prompt or the fill of empty fields on first entry.
A try-on size change, the one row that is not a form field. It reads 38 / R, which is size then length.
Empty on the left means the field had no value before. Deleted on the right means it was cleared.
One entry per person per day
Measurements get nudged several times while someone is taking them, and a list of every keystroke would be unreadable. So each person gets one entry per field per day: the value as it stood before their first change that day, and the value they left it at.
What Sarah did on Tuesday
- Coat Size 40 to 41
- Coat Size 41 to 41.5
- Coat Size 41.5 to 42
What history shows
One line, under Sarah, dated Tuesday.
Changing your mind
If you change a value and put it back the same day, the entry disappears. Nothing actually changed, so nothing is reported. Come back the next day and edit the same field and you get a fresh entry, because a new day has started.
Two people editing the same field on the same day get one entry each, so you can always see who did what.
Whose history you are looking at
Measurements live in more than one place, and each history list shows one place: a garment type from one manufacturer on one fit profile, or the master form. Two lists never mix.
A garment's list is a little wider than the garment alone. Body profile answers (posture, shoulder slope, chest and stomach observations and the rest) belong to the customer rather than to any one garment, and so do Height and Weight. So a garment's history shows those too, under a Body Profile heading at the top, followed by the garment's own fields under the garment type's name. Change posture from inside a jacket's form and it shows in the history of every garment from that manufacturer, not only the jacket.
The master form is the one place that keeps to itself. Its history holds only changes made on the master form, and those changes never appear in a garment's list.
Height and Weight are shown in the units your store uses: feet and inches, inches or centimetres, pounds or kilograms.
Fit profiles
Where a garment uses a fit profile, its history is kept separately per profile. Two garments of the same type on different profiles have separate lists, and switching a garment's profile switches which list you see. Two profiles' measurements are never mixed into one list.
Good to know
- History starts when the feature was addedChanges made before then were never recorded and cannot be brought back. A customer measured last year opens on No measurement history yet. until someone edits them again.
- It is your store's history onlyOwners, admins and staff can all open it, and every list only ever covers your own store's customers. Another store's information is not reachable from it.
- Days, not timesThe list shows the day a change was made, never the clock time, so two changes the same person made hours apart read as one line.
- Some accounts show as "Unknown user"Names and photos come from a list of users the app refreshes every few minutes, and on larger accounts not everyone fits in it. The change and its values are still correct, only the name is missing. It affects other parts of the app the same way.
- It is a record, not an undoHistory shows what a value was. It does not put it back. To return to an old value, type it in yourself, which is recorded as its own change.