Create a label type for immediate or future use within
a VOB.
About this task
After creating a label type in a VOB, you can attach labels
of that type to versions of that VOB's elements, using the
Apply
Label wizard or the
Apply Label window.
Procedure
To create a label type:
- Access the Create Label Type window using one of the following
methods:
- From the Label Type node in the ClearTeam Navigator
- Using the ClearTeam Navigator view, navigate
to the VOB where you want to create the label type.
- Click the (+) next to the VOB name to expand the VOB node. The Branch
Types and Label Types nodes are
displayed.
- Right-click the Label Types node and select Create
Label Type. The Create Label Type window
opens.
- From the Apply Label wizard
- Start the Apply Label wizard.
- On the Apply label wizard - select label type page,
click Create Label Type.... The Create
Label Type window opens.
- In the Label Type field, specify
a name for the label type.
- Verify that the VOB displayed in In VOB is
correct. If it is not, select the correct one from the list.
- Optionally, you can enter a description of the new label
type in the Comment field.
- Select the Create a global label type option
if you want to create a label type that can be used as a global resource
by client VOBs in the administrative VOB hierarchy. Unset the Create
a global label type option to create an ordinary label
type that can be used only in the current VOB.
- If you set Create a global label type,
you can also select the Acquire locally defined label types
of the same name option to check for all eclipsing label
types in client VOBs and convert them to local copies of the new global
label type.
- Select the Allow use of this label type even
when it is remotely mastered option if you want to create
(apply) or delete labels of this type at other replicas in the VOB
family.
- Choose one of the following options in the This
label may be applied section.
- once per element: the label can only
be applied to one version of an element
- once per branch: the label can only
be applied to one version on each branch of an element
- Click OK.
What to do next
The new label type is created in the VOB. You can use the
ClearCase®
Navigator view or the
ClearTeam Details view to see the
label types that exist in a VOB. Note that obsolete, locked, and reserved (CHECKEDOUT and LATEST,
for example) label types are not displayed.