Setting up a collaborative development environment to manage
shared design resources
After you create a project and associate it with a configuration
space, you can create snapshots and workspaces to manage how changes
to resources are managed and released to other team members.
Before you begin
You should be familiar with project
areas, configuration spaces, snapshots, workspaces,
and change sets, which are described in Management of shared design resources.
Viewing and managing configurations
A configuration is a unique group of versions of shared
design resources. There are two types of configurations: snapshots
and workspaces. You can search for and switch to a specific configuration,
open and edit the current configuration of a project, and compare
configurations.
Taking snapshots of workspaces
A snapshot is a read-only list of resources and their versions
that are part of a space at a specific point in time. You must use
a snapshot as the basis of a new workspace; completing this action
defines a starting point for a project. You can take a snapshot of
a workspace at any point during the project lifecycle, such as before
or after a project milestone is reached. You might also take a snapshot
of a default space, such as the Domains space, after you import a
profile.
Creating workspaces
A workspace configuration, or workspace, is the working
environment in which you modify shared design resources. A workspace
is a type of configuration that belongs to a configuration space,
which is also called a space. You can add, edit, and delete versions
of resources in a workspace. You can configure a workspace to be editable
by one team member or by several team members. Workspaces can be shared
by multiple projects in the same configuration space.