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July 2008 [Cradle 5.7]

Baseline Mode

A new option has been added to the user interface of Web Access, Toolset and WorkBench and to the c_table utility. This option allows you to view either all items or only items in the latest baseline.

To set this option in Web Access you need to choose the Options button

In WorkBench:

In Toolset:

In Web Access:

A new -bline option has also been added to c_table.

The Cradle-5.7 release provides two settings for the baseline mode:

  • <Unset> - The default, baseline mode is not set
  • <Latest> - Use the latest baseline and its associated cross references

The default baseline mode is <Unset> in which all Cradle components work as in previous releases and the behaviour is:

  1. All operations (such as running queries) are applied to all information in the database
  2. The current set of cross references are used to display linked information, apply navigations and so on
  3. You are accessing the database either read-write (the default) or read-only depending on the access mode with which you logged-in
  4. You have read-only or read-write access to information depending on your login access mode, the details of your user profile, and the properties of the item that you are trying to access

If you change the baseline mode to <Latest>, then the behaviour is:

  1. All operations (such as running queries) are applied to only items in the latest closed baseline, so the only items that you can ever see are those that are in the latest closed baseline
  2. The set of cross references used to display linked information, apply navigations and so on is the set of cross references that was in effect when the latest baseline was closed. All versions of Cradle from Cradle-1.6 onwards have always taken a copy of the current cross references when a baseline is closed, these cross reference copies are tagged with the name of that baseline that has just been closed. Therefore, over the life of a project, all Cradle databases contain multiple sets of cross references, the current cross reference set and one set of cross references for each closed baseline.
  3. Your access mode is temporarily forced to be read-only. Your login access mode will be restored if you set the baseline mode back to <Unset>
  4. You have read-only access to information depending on the details of your user profile, and the properties of the item that you are trying to access