WorkspaceHistory not specific to children of GroupWorkspaces

[Peter Parker]

This ticket is raised out of #5212, but addresses a more general issue.

To reproduce:

• Load multiple files via the multifile syntax of Load. This will load the data of each file into a single GroupWorkspace.
• Copy the history script of one of the child workspaces to the clipboard.
• Run the script in a Python Console window.

All files loaded in the original call to Load will now be present, even though you only asked for the history of a single workspace.

This is more than just a multifile loading issue, since loading multiple period data using LoadRaw, LoadNexus or similar and getting the history of a single period is also not possible. All periods would be reloaded in such a case.

Finally, solving this issue would also require some thought about how a user would then be able to use the functionality currently seen; i.e. how would it then be possible to load all periods or all files using python history scripts?

[Nick Draper]

Moved to milestone 2.4

[Nick Draper]

This is accepted as normal behaviour, it is a true representation of the history of that workspace.

[Alex Buts]

Would agree with this conclusion though unrelated bugs were identified during the testing.

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​6634