Administering change sets

This content applies to version 4.0.3 or later. If you are assigned the Change Set Administrator role, the Change Set Collaborator role, or both, depending on your role, you can complete, share, discard, modify, and reverse other team members' change sets.

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.
  • In the Configuration Management application, you must be assigned the Change Set Administrator role, the Change Set Collaborator role, or both.

About this task

You cannot do an action on an individual resource in a change set; you can only do an action on the entire change set.

In a collaborative development environment where users share workspaces, resources in change sets are locked and cannot be modified. If the owner of a change set in a shared workspace is unavailable to discard, complete, or share a change set, as a Change Set Administrator, Change Set Collaborator, or both, you can do these actions so that the resources in the change set are unlocked and can be modified by other users. You can also share the change sets of other team members, and create a change set that reverses the changes that were shared in a specific change set.

Procedure

  1. Open the Configuration Explorer view. On the toolbar of a lifecycle management product, click Current Configuration Context > Explore Configurations.
  2. Find the workspace that contains the change set to work on.
  3. In the workspace editor, click the Change Sets tab.
  4. In the upper right of the Change Sets section, click the Switch between the current user and all users icon to toggle to multi-user mode.
    • In multi-user mode, you can view and do actions on all the change sets in the current workspace.
    • In single-user mode, you can view and do actions only on your change sets in the workspace.
  5. In the Actions column:
    • To undo the changes to the resources in the change set and delete the change set, click Discard.
    • To deliver the changes to the workspace that is associated with this change set, click Share.
    • To prevent further changes to this change set, click Complete.
    • To change the name of the change set, click Edit Comment.
    • To create a change set that reverses the changes that were previously shared in the selected change set, click Reverse This Change Set.

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