You must connect to an archive before you can work on a
project.
Procedure
- Open the Configuration Items window. Choose .
- Click the Connect to Archive button. IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® searches
for the PVCS Dimensions DLL (specified by the SourceCodeControlProvider registry
key).
- If it finds the DLL, Rational Rhapsody launches
PVCS Dimensions to perform the Connect to Archive operation.
- If it does not find the DLL, the configuration
management tool might not be registered properly in the Windows registry. See Unable to connect to SCC-Compliant configuration management tool (SCC mode) for troubleshooting information.
- You can see whether the specific version of the
tool you are using is SCC‑compliant. Some tools that are SCC‑compliant
in one version are not compliant in earlier versions (for example,
version 5.0 versus 6.0).
- If the PVCS Dimensions DLL is found, the
PVCS Dimensions Remote Login window opens.
- Type your user password in the Password field,
then click the Connect button to open the Select
Workset Directory for Project window.
- Click OK. The PVCS
Dimensions connects the project to the archive and confirms completion
of the Connect operation.
- Click OK.
Results
An effect of the Connect to Archive operation
is that Rational Rhapsody stores
project information in both the ConfigurationManagement::SCC::ProjName and ConfigurationManagement::SCC::AuxProjPath properties,
so the project is automatically connected to the same archive the
next time you open it. You do not need to modify these properties
manually, unless you want to connect the project to a different archive.