Creating workspaces in lifecycle management products

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. 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.

Before you begin

  • You should be familiar with project areas, configuration spaces, snapshots, workspaces, and change sets, which are described in Management of shared resources.
  • You must be logged in to a project area in a lifecycle management product.
  • This content applies to version 4.0.3 or later.
    • In the lifecycle management product that you use, you must have permission to work with Configuration Management application configurations. Depending on the lifecycle management product that you use, the permission names vary.
    • In the Configuration Management application, you must have permission to create or modify workspaces. For more information about setting permissions in the Configuration Management application, see the link to the related task at the end of this topic.

About this task

Each project area in a lifecycle management product is associated with a configuration space in the Configuration Management application. The configuration space contains a default workspace. This default workspace can contain multiple snapshots and workspaces. A project area in a lifecycle management product can also contain multiple workspaces. For example, in a banking project area, you might have a workspace for the resources that define the application logic, a workspace for the resources that contain the database logic, and a workspace for the resources that compose the user interface.

Multiple workspaces can contain a copy of the same resource. Changing a resource in your workspace does not affect the same version of that resource in other workspaces until other team members choose to accept your changes into their workspace by using the Accept Incoming Changes operation. For more information about that operation, see the related topic link at the end of this topic.

Procedure

To create a workspace, complete one of the following steps based on the application you are using:

Results

You can now create a change set in the workspace, and then make your changes in the context of that change set.

If you do not create a change set, you can switch the context to the workspace that you created. Each time that you save changes to a resource, a change set is created automatically.


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