Sharing changes with your team

When you are ready to share your changes with other team members, you must first move the changes in a change set into your current workspace, and then use the Accept and Deliver operations to move other team members’ changes into your workspace or move your changes into other team members’ workspaces.

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.

This scenario assumes that you use change sets to group changes to shared design resources.

About this task

You can accept and deliver changes to and from workspaces at any time during the lifecycle of a project.

Procedure

The workflow for delivering changes in a collaborative development environment includes the following high-level steps:

  1. Navigate to the workspace that contains the change set that contains the changes that you made to the shared design resources: From the Current Configuration Context menu, which is located near the upper-right corner of the toolbar, select Explore Configurations.
  2. In the Configuration Explorer view, click the Change Sets tab.
  3. Mark the change set as complete. By completing this step, the change set is locked and you cannot make any more changes to the resources in the change set, or add or remove resources to this change set.
  4. Share the change set. By completing this step, the changes in the change set are moved into your workspace.
  5. Deliver the changes in your workspace. By completing this step, you specify which changes are delivered to the parent workspace and, therefore, become available to other team members who can accept those changes into their own workspaces.

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