Checking out or Refreshing to a different location

It is common to want to check out or get a file to a directory other than the default location. For example, you may want to view code in a previous revision of a file, but have untested changes in the current revision and don't want to check in these changes.

To check out or get files to a directory other than the default, select the object(s) in Version Manager and select Action / Checkout, or Action / Refresh, from the main menu. This displays the check out dialog box:

At the bottom of the dialog you can enter a new path to check the files out to. If this option is disabled, it means that the objects selected do not have a common root directory.

If you change the check out directory, the new path will be used as the root for all the files being checked out. The actual directory structure will be preserved, but under a different root.

Note that, since Team Coherence remembers where a file was checked out to, and you may have multiple versions of a file in different directories, the file can only be checked in from the directory it was checked out to.