About grouping projects

A grouping project specifically groups projects.

For example, a good use for a grouping project is to contain the different platforms for a software application. If all of your projects are structured into one large hierarchy, check out new project versions by using the Copy Project dialog box Subprojects list.

Note: Grouping projects are optional, but useful. It is easier to check in a set of projects or check out a set of projects when they are grouped in a hierarchy.

As an example, assume that you want to group different platforms of a project called toolkit_top-3.0. It groups toolkit-win and toolkit-unix together.

To set up the toolkit_top-3.0 grouping project, set up uniquely named projects.

Two projects with the same name cannot be subprojects within the same parent project. For example, toolkit-win and toolkit-unix cannot be grouped together in the same project.

To group projects with the same name, create an extra level of projects with unique names. A single project with a work area cannot contain subprojects whose work areas are not visible to the parent project. Therefore, turn off work areas, which is described in Creating a grouping project.

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