Copying Baselined Items

Projects that do not use the Cradle Configuration Management System (CMS) to raise formal changes to baselined information, will allow their users to make personal copies of project-owned, baselined, items to start the process of changing information in the baseline.

Cradle-5.4.1 introduces new options in the copy dialogues in Cradle Toolset and WorkBench to overcome some issues when users made personal copies of baselined items. These new options are only active when the user is copying a project-owned item and are:

• If auto-numbering has been enabled for the item’s type, that the copied item should preserve the baselined item’s identity. This option is selected by default.
• If the baselined item has a change history, that the copied item should also have this change history. This option is selected by default.

The copy mechanisms now also ensure that irrespective of the version number of the item being copied from the baseline, that the user-owned instance of the item that is created by the copy will have the latest version number so as to always be selected in queries which select Owner = LATEST.