Viewing configurations in a tree view

Use the tree view to see a hierarchy of configurations from this and other contributing IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Management (Engineering Lifecycle Management) applications. You can also sort configurations by name or contribution order (to fix unintentional component skew). A configuration that gathers configurations from across applications is called a global configuration.

Before you begin

You must first create a configuration in an Engineering Lifecycle Management application to add it to a global configuration. For example, to support a release, you might create a requirements configuration in the IBM DOORS® Next application, a test configuration in the Engineering Test Management application, or a model configuration in the Architecture Management (AM) application. In the Global Configuration Management application, you can then add the configurations to the global configuration.

About this task

In the Global Configuration Management tree you, you can complete the following tasks:
  • See a collection of configurations from Engineering Lifecycle Management applications as a single, logical unit.
  • Create a product variant.
  • Move, reorder, remove, or reuse configurations.
  • Add a change set to test insulated changes without delivering the changes to a shared stream.

Procedure

  • From the Home menu Home menu, choose a Global Configuration Management project area.

    Image of Home menu showing a Global Configuration Management project.

    Browse to configurations in one of these ways:

    • Search for a configuration by using Quick Search Magnifying glass near the upper right of the page, or the Search section on the Welcome page to find a stream, baseline, snapshot, personal stream, baseline staging stream, or global configuration.
      Tip: Show or hide the Welcome page by selecting or clearing the Show the Welcome page when you log in checkbox near the lower right of the page. View the Welcome page at any time from the Help menu.

      Image shows the Global Configuration Management application Welcome page

    • Browse to configurations by clicking Browse and create components or Browse configurations.
    • On the toolbar, click Global Configurations and choose a configuration to view, or click Components and go to a configuration by first viewing the component.

    After you select the global configuration, it opens in the hierarchical tree view.

    Image shows "Engine Initial Stream" global configuration with "Engine Project".

    By default, the tree view shows configurations in the position they were manually added or moved to. In this view, you can move configurations to resolve component skew or to group them.

    To find configurations by listing them alphabetically, on the toolbar in the tree view, click Sort View (Button labeled a to z with a downward arrow beside the letters) and click Name. You can't move a configuration in this view; to do that, switch to Contribution Order. Configurations with the same name are shown in their contribution order: the position they were manually added or moved to.

    If you are troubleshooting because the Current Configuration menu in your Engineering Lifecycle Management application does not show the local configuration that you expected, read Selecting a configuration to work in. If you have already read that document and you need information about reordering configurations because of the results of a component skew report, see Unexpected local configuration in Current Configuration menu.

  • You can set a bookmark to the Global Configuration Management application and then open it in your browser by using the bookmark.

What to do next

The following topics show ways that you might want to use a configuration after you view it.