Delivering change sets in the RM application
Before you begin
- Ensure that you are familiar with project areas, components (if supported), baselines, streams, and change sets (if supported).
- Ensure that you are logged in to a project.
- You must have permission to deliver change sets.
- In some projects, an administrator might require you to link change sets to work items that are approved (as defined by the application that manages work items). If this option is enabled, review the work item to ensure that this condition is met before you deliver the change set.
About this task
An administrator can prevent unauthorized changes to artifacts by requiring you to link change sets to work items or change requests that have at least one approval. The governance of your project or organization determines when this option is enabled. For example, at the start of a project or release, the option might not be enabled so that team members can easily deliver many changes. Toward the end of a milestone or release, the option might be enforced so that only authorized changes are delivered. Dependent change sets must also be linked to approved work items.
Procedure
- Follow the prompts and complete the steps in the wizard. In addition to the Standard delivery of change sets where you can review all change before delivering them, you can speed up or customize the delivery process with the Express or Custom delivery options.
- Express: You have many changes to deliver and
don't need to review them. Automatically deliver all the changes without reviewing them; you will be
notified if there are any conflicts.
Automatically resolve conflicts where possible: Select so the system resolves conflicts that occur when different attributes of an artifact are modified in each configuration; for example, the primary text modified in the source and the description modified in the target. If the same attribute is modified in both configurations, delivery stops and you resolve the differences.
- Custom: You might have many changes or you want
to control which ones are delivered; select all or a subset of them; choose to review them or not;
and specify how the system handles conflicts:
- Notify me: When a conflict occurs between artifacts, the delivery stops and you resolve the conflict.
- Automatically merge where possible: Select so the system resolves conflicts that occur when different attributes of an artifact are modified in each configuration; for example, the primary text modified in the source and the description modified in the target. If the same attribute is modified in both configurations, delivery stops and you resolve the differences.
- Always overwrite with source: When a conflict occurs between artifacts, the version in the change set automatically overwrites the version in the target stream.
- Specify dominant source attributes: When a conflict occurs between artifacts, the conflict is resolved by automatically delivering the values of attributes that you selected. When you deliver your changes, if the system detects a conflict between the artifact versions in the source and target configurations, it delivers only the selected attribute values for that artifact version to the target stream.
If you choose to review your changes, use the controls on the Deliver Change Sets page.- View the artifacts in the change set: Expand and collapse the sections on the left side
of the page:
- See differences when artifacts changed in both the change set and the target stream:
Expand the Changed in both section, and click an artifact. Changes are
color-coded in the changes section:
- Deliver all or none of the changes for an artifact: Use the check boxes in the
Changed in both section and the buttons in the right side of the page:
- Select or exclude individual changes for delivery: Beside each changed attribute, select
an option:
- Manually merge changes in the Primary Text field: When you select the Manually
Merge menu option for the Primary Text field, a window opens with an editable Primary Text
field. The field is populated with the target value, since that is what you can edit. The window
also shows the read-only source value for comparison:
- You can use either the source or target text as the base to edit and make changes as needed. To use the text of the source artifact as a starting point for your changes, click Start With Source Text. The text of the target artifact moves to the other pane so that you can compare them.
- You can include existing embedded artifacts, links, and terms from both the source and the target by using either copy and paste or drag and drop.
- You can copy a link or an image to the clipboard without selecting the entire link text or image. In the read-only primary text content on the left side of the dialog box, right-click a link or an image and click Copy.
- You can also click and drag a link or an image from the left side and drop it into the editable primary text field on the right.
Click Apply Changes when you finish.
- Express: You have many changes to deliver and
don't need to review them. Automatically deliver all the changes without reviewing them; you will be
notified if there are any conflicts.
Results
If you are working in a personal stream, after you deliver the change set, it is automatically removed from your personal stream.
What to do next
You can now deliver those changes to another stream in the RM application. You can either deliver all the change sets or only selected ones from one stream to another. See the related topic.
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