Create a label type for immediate or future use within a VOB.
Before you begin
You must connect to a Rational ClearCase Web server to create a label
type.
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.
To create a label type:
- Access the Create Label Type window using one of the following
methods:
- From the Label Type node in the ClearCase Navigator
- Using the ClearCase 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
ClearCase 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.