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AccuRev®

Preface

Audience

Using This Book

Typographical Conventions

Contacting Technical Support

Overview of the On-Line Help

If You Are a New AccuRev User

If You Are Upgrading From a Previous AccuRev Version

How Do I Configure My Browser?

Help Topics for Multiple Features

Using the AccuRev GUI

Starting the GUI

The Login Command

The Change Password Command

The Multiple-Tab Display

Current User, Depot, and Workspace

Keyboard Accelerators

Integration with the AccuRev Web UI

Find, Search, and Filter Features

Working with Tables

Choosing a Depot to be Used for a Command

Choosing a Stream to be Used for a Command

The File Chooser Dialog

User-Specified Names for AccuRev Entities

The GUI Main Toolbar

The GUI Main Menu

The File Menu

The New Depot Command

The New Workspace Command

The New Stream and Change Stream Commands(Stream Configuration dialog)

The Workspaces Tab / The Open Workspace Dialog

The New Snapshot Comman

The Properties Command

The Issues Menu

The Tools Menu

The Synchronize Time Command

The Show Info Dialog

The Server Tasks Tab

Filter Users/Groups(View Users/Groups Command)

AccuRev Preferences (Tools > Preferences Command)

Diff/Merge Page

Version Browser Page

StreamBrowser Page

The Admin Menu (Administrators Only)

The Depots Tab

The Reference Trees Tab

The New Reference Tree Command

Opening and Closing the File Browser

Parts of the File Browser

Controlling the Display of Element Names

Alternatives to the File Browser

Explorer Mode

Outgoing Changes Mode

Incoming Changes Mode

Conflicts Mode

Common Usage Scenarios

Anchor: Preventing Files from Being Overwritten

Annotate: Reviewing Transactions on an Element

Creating a New File

Creating a New Folder

Cut, Copy, and Paste

Defunct: Removing Elements from the Workspace

Delete: Deleting Elements from a Workspace Tree

Demote: Moving Elements Out of a Stream

Demote by Transaction

Demote by File

Demote by Issue

Including and Excluding Files

Keep: Creating a New Version

Populate: Restoring Deleted Elements

Promote: Sharing Your Work

Renaming an Element

Resolving (twin) Status

Revert: Undoing Changes

Choosing a Workspace for the Revert Command

Revert to Basis

Revert to Most Recent Version

Send to Workspace

Update: Keeping Your Workspace Current

The Update Progress Box

WIP: Identifying Work in Progress

The Default Group of a Workspace or Stream

Real Versions and Virtual Versions

AccuRev Element Status Reference

Details Pane Table Columns Reference

The StreamBrowser

Working in the StreamBrowser

Viewing a Stream's Current Development Activity

Reparenting Streams and Workspaces

Working with Stream Properties

Commands Available in a StreamBrowser Tab

Using Stream Favorites

Creating a Stream Favorite

Working with Stream Favorites

Getting Others’ Stream Favorites

The Overlaps Tab

The Remove Stream Command (and the Remove Workspace Command)

Default Group Subwindows in the StreamBrowser

StreamBrowser History

Find Stream

The Stream Diff (Files) Tab(Show Diff By Files command)

Commands That Operate on the Selected Version

The Active Issues Tab

The Active Transactions Tab(Show Active Transactions)

The Stream Version Browser

The Patch List Tab (Show Patch List command)

The History Browser

Opening a History Browser Tab

History Browser Tab Layout

Working in the Summary Pane

Working in the Versions Pane

The Version Browser

Opening a Version Browser

Version Browser Layout

Workspace Groups

Ancestry Lines

Ancestry Relationships

Displaying a Version’s Change Package

Closest Common Ancestor

Operations on Versions

Diff, Merge, Patch, and the Change Palette

The Diff Tool

Invoking the Diff Tool (or Another File-Comparison Tool)

Diffing One File Against Another

Diff Tab Layout

Navigating in a Diff Tab

Editing a File Using the Diff Tool

Diff Previous Transaction Error

Main Menu Commands Available in a Diff Tab

Merge

The AccuRev Merge Tool

The Search Command

Patch and Patch From

Show Patch List

The Merge, Patch, and Reverse Patch Algorithms

Resolving Namespace Conflicts

Merging Versions of a Binary File

Merging Versions of an HTML File

Merging Versions of a Link

Merging Versions of a Directory

The Merge Complete Dialog

The Change Palette

Opening the Change Palette

Change Palette Layout

Working in the Change Palette

Selecting a Workspace for Performing Merges

Closing the Change Palette

Commands Available in the Change Palette

Security

Users and Groups

User Authentication

Which Security Feature Should I Use?

Managing EACLs in the AccuRev GUI

File Locking

The Security/Users Subtab

The Security/Groups Subtab

The Security/ACL Subtab

The Available AccuRev Servers Dialog(and the New Server and Edit Server dialogs)

The Issue Form -- "Changes" Subtab

The Issue Form -- "Issue History" Subtab

The New File Attachment Dialog

The New URL Attachment Dialog

Creating AccuWork Queries

The AccuWork Query Editor

Set Up Columns

Change Packages

A Change Package Example

Change Package Details

Change Package Display

Structure of a Change Package

Complex Change Package Entries

Promote-by-Issue Basics

Incomplete Change Packages

File Purge (Revert to Basis)

Reuse of Issues Across Streams

Promoting by File Instead of by Issue

How to Troubleshoot Incomplete Change Packages

Demote by Issue

Common CPK Messages and Displays

The Issues Conflict Message Box

Promote Coalesce Error

Send to Issue : Associating Changes with an Issue

The Active Issues Tab(Show Active Issues)

The Stream Diff (Issues) Tab

The Issue Dependencies Tab

Variants

The Schema Editor (Administrators Only)

"No Schema" Error

Invoking the Schema Editor

Schema Tab

Layout Tab

Lists Tab

Relationship Types Tab

Validation Tab

Change Packages Tab

Configuring and Using Third-Party ITS Keys

Support and Troubleshooting

Logging

Configuring a Web Browser to View Help Topics