IBM SC34-4499-03 manual Working with common parts

Before getting parts from TeamConnection, you might want to ®nd out if the development mode for the release is concurrent or serial. To determine the mode, view the information about the speci®c release. To do this, selectView from the Selected pull-down menu on the Releases window.

Working with common parts

A common part is a part with identical content that is shared by two or more releases or two or more work areas. For example, when an identical part is needed in two separate releases, you can link the part from one release to the other (if you have the proper authority). Both releases would then have a link to the current version of that part.

When a common part is checked out of a release, TeamConnection locks the current version of the part in all releases if one of them uses serial development. When putting the part back into the release, one of the following actions re¯ects the change in all releases in which the part is common:

vYou integrate the work area when the driver subprocess is not followed, or

vYou commit the driver when the driver subprocess is followed.

You can break the common link if you make changes to a common part and you do not want these changes re¯ected in other releases or work areas that link to the part. You can break the common link when you check out, check in, rename, delete, re-create, connect, or disconnect parts. When a part is common to more than two releases, you can maintain the common link with some of the releases while breaking the link with other releases. When a link is broken, the parts still share the same name, but the information contained in the parts is different.

Parts can also be linked between two or more work areas in the same or different releases, making the parts common to those work areas. For example, a user working in one work area can link to the latest version of a part in another work area of the same release (the part has yet to be integrated with the release). The part is then common to the two work areas within the same release. If you want to maintain the common link to all work areas, you must specify the names of the common work areas when you check in, rename, delete, or re-create the parts. As with common parts in releases, you can break the common link.

You can also link all the parts within a release to another release. This function is especially helpful when development begins on a new release of a product, and you want the parts in the new release to initially be the same as the parts in the current release. As development of the two releases continues, the common link between the parts can be broken to separate development of the new release from maintenance of the current release.

For more information about how to link parts, refer to the Commands Reference and online help.

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