Undoing changes that were shared by other change sets

This content applies to version 4.0.3 or later. You can undo, or reverse, the changes to resources that were shared in a previous change set.

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, and you must be in a workspace that is associated with the current configuration space.
  • The change set that you want to reverse must be shared to the current workspace.

About this task

You cannot reverse a change set that affects resources that are currently locked by you or another user in the current workspace. Get the resources unlocked by a user who has permission to do so, and then reverse the changes.

Procedure

  1. Open the Change Set Explorer view. On the toolbar of a lifecycle management product, click Current Configuration Context and click Open Current Configuration to see the current workspace, or click Explore Configurations to open a different workspace.
  2. In the workspace editor, click the Change Sets tab.
    Tip: If you do not see the change set to reverse, click the Switch between showing all or only unshared change sets icon near the upper right of the Change Sets section.
  3. In the Actions column, beside the change set whose changes you want to reverse, click the Reverse This Change Set icon. You can see a change set named Reversing:change_set_name in the list of change sets for this workspace. This operation might take a few minutes to complete.
  4. Beside the change set named Reversing:change_set_name, click the Share icon.

Results

The changes that were shared by the original change set are reversed after you share the Reversing:change_set_name change set, and are now visible to other team members that use the current workspace.

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