When a change request is applied, the entire activity or work package is not overwritten. Instead, the manual changes are tracked and applied. This approach is used to prevent overwriting progress and other edits. When the change is applied, only the changes made to the activities or work packages are applied.
You can view what was changed by clicking the View Summary button on the workflow form. You can also tell what changed after applying the change in the add-in by adding the calculated field PMC Changed Text. Records that are listed in the View Summary dialog box have the word ‘Changed’ in the PMC Changed Text column. You can also add the calculated field PMC Downstream Text to see which activities have moved due to a change on a predecessor.
When a change request includes cost changes, you see the changes on the work package (or work package costs), you can view the changes in the Sandbox project in Cobra.
The actual fields that are changed are stored in the Change Action log. You cannot make changes in the sandbox project without updating the Change Action log or the changes will not be applied to the live project. To view the Change Action log for the work package and work package costs, run this query: select * from CAM_CRChangeAction.