Administering Projects and Lifecycles › Configure Baseline

Configure Baseline

When you create a project, it automatically contains an empty baseline. The name baseline is a reserved name; no other view can have this name. An administrator must specify the repositories to include in the baseline. The repositories contain the physical data items that CA Harvest SCM controls. The Configure Baseline dialog lets you configure a baseline.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Lifecycles tab of the Administrator application.
2. Navigate to the Data Views folder for your project, right-click Baseline, and select Configure Baseline from the shortcut menu.

   The Configure Baseline dialog appears.

3. Complete the dialog fields:

   View Type

   Lists the available repositories of that type after you select a view type from the drop-down list.

   • ALL—Selects all repositories or a limited set as the starting point for this new development.
   • Base—Accesses a new repository that has been loaded. CA Harvest SCM automatically creates this view to reflect the repository before changes are made to it.
   • Snapshot—Specifies a snapshot view. When a baseline is defined, you can select from among the global snapshot views available as the starting point for further development. These global snapshots typically represent significant points in an application's history, such as a release. After you select a snapshot view, the repositories that the snapshot includes are listed. Although these repositories have the same names as those included in the Base view, the items in that repository are the versions included in that snapshot view when it was created, and not in the original version of the repository.

   Available Repository/View List

   Lists repositories that are associated with your server and are available to add to the baseline.

   The first entry in the list is Base. Selecting Base returns a list of all available repositories in their original condition to the Available Repository/View List, where you can select them for inclusion in the baseline.

   If any repositories have been added to the baseline of the current project, their names are displayed in this list. Selecting repositories from the list and clicking Add shows your selection in the Selected Repository List.

   Important! You can add more repositories to the baseline at any time; however, after development has begun in a project and items have been changed, you cannot remove a repository from the baseline.

   Selected Repository List

   Displays your repository selections in a list. Remove is enabled when a repository or a directory in this list is selected. Select a repository or a directory, and click Remove to remove the selection from the baseline. If a repository has been changed in this project, it cannot be removed from the baseline.

   Read/Write or Read Only

   Works with the Selected Repository List and lets you change the access type of a repository. When you select a repository in the Selected Repository List, the access type of your selection enables this option. To change the access type of a repository, select the repository in the Selected Repository List, and click this button.

   Click OK.

   The baseline is configured and appears in the Lifecycles tab.