Selecting a project area

To generate a report, you must first choose a project and a configuration (workspace or snapshot) from which the resource data is to be obtained. The configuration could be a workspace or a snapshot, depending on the version of Design Management you are using. The configuration is specified in the URL of the data source.

About this task

In Design Management 3.0, a project area contains the current versions of resources and optionally, historical immutable copies of those resources (called snapshots). As the project area could only have a single set of these resources, this was equivalent to a single stream, or in Design Management 4.0 terminology, a single workspace. The Design Management 3.0 “current” workspace contained the latest versions of the resources though you could create multiple snapshots of the workspace.

In Design Management 4.0, a project area can have multiple workspaces, where each workspace contains a set of resources. A resource can exist in differing versions in multiple workspaces. In addition, each workspace can have multiple snapshots. These workspaces and snapshots are also referred to as configurations. You can choose the configuration you need to use in the UI for the project.

When a project area is created, the administrator must define its configuration space on the Manage the Project Properties web page. Defining a configuration space automatically creates a default workspace. If no other workspaces are created, a Design Management 4.0 project area would be equivalent to a Design Management 3.0 project area in which the default workspace contains the latest versions of the project's resources.

However, additional workspaces can be created as branches of the default workspace or of another workspace. To create a new workspace, a snapshot must first be made on the parent workspace. Set that snapshot as the current configuration and then create the branch or child workspace. This child workspace inherits all the resources that were defined in the snapshot on the parent workspace. Future changes to the resources in the parent workspace will not be included in the child workspace.


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