Creating a Child Workspace

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Workspaces Defined

Setting Up Workspaces

You can create a new workspace by copying files from an existing workspace. This process, known as a "bringover create," establishes a special relationship between the two workspaces: the newly created workspace is a child of the original workspace. This relationship implies that all the files in the child workspace are derived from those in the parent workspace.

Files in the child workspace can be added, modified, deleted, or renamed without affecting the parent workspace. You then propagate the changes back to the parent workspace by performing a putback. (See Integrating Changes by Putting Back Files.)

To create a child workspace:

1. From the Configuring Window, load an existing workspace by choosing File Load Workspaces.

2. Click the workspace to select it.

3. Choose Workspaces Create Child.

4. Type the name of the directory you want to use for your child workspace.

If the directory does not already exist, Configuring creates it for you.

5. Click Do Bringover.

6. Click OK.

This opens the Bringover Create Tab in the Transactions Dialog Box.

7. In the Bringover Create tab, select the files you want to include by:

• Clicking Entire Workspace to select all the files,

or

Clicking Add to select specific files to bringover to the child workspace.

8. Click the Bringover button.