Using Views
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A View is perhaps the most powerful tool available in Team Coherence when it comes to managing multiple versions of a project. At their simplest, Views allow you to filter which projects, files, and revisions are displayed in Version Manager.

Working with previous versions of a project then simply becomes a case of selecting a View. Once defined and selected, as far as the user is concerned they will be working on the latest version of the project. All branching, synchronizing, reassignment of Version Labels, etc are handled automatically by Team Coherence whether working through Version Manager, or your selected IDE interface.

In addition, if required, the default working path for the files in any View can be different for each View, or can be based on the <default> View.

Views are accessible via the toolbar in Version Manager:

viewstool  

The drop-down list provides access to all user and shared views. It always contains at least one entry, which is the <default> view. The <default> view cannot be modified as it is the view that displays all projects and all files and represents the most current line of development.

To create or modify a view select the Tools / Views... option from the menu to display the View Manager dialog:

viewmgr  

This dialog lists all the defined views for the current user. To modify a View select it in the list and press the Modify... button. To add a new View, press the New button.

There are three types of View you can create:

·Version  
·Promotion  
·Date  

Shared Views are available to all users connected to a repository, however shared views can only be created by Admin users.

 


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