You can use the Properties view to show and change the
metadata associated with UCM activities, baselines, branch types,
elements, label types, streams, UCM components, UCM projects, versions,
views, and VOBs. Certain types of metadata can only be changed by
authorized users.
When you modify an element, version, or VOB property, you affect
all users who access that element, version, or VOB.
Permission to change a property
Modifiable
properties can be changed only by a user with adequate privileges.
Your Rational ClearCase privileges are determined by the user identity
with which you log on to the ClearCase® server. If you attempt
to change a property that you are not authorized to modify, the operation
fails.
Element protections
Element protections
provide a way to control access to all versions of an element by all
users of the VOB that contains the element. The protections that can
be set and the meanings of those settings depend on whether the element
is a directory or a file.
- For both file and directory elements, read permission controls
whether a version of the file or directory can be loaded into a Rational ClearCase Web view.
- For file elements, write permission does not apply. To modify
an element, you must check it out and then create a new version by
checking in your modifications. These operations are always permitted
for the owner of the element or any member of the owning group. In
addition, the user who checked out an element is always permitted
to check it in.
- Execute, set UID, and set GID permissions apply only to ClearCase
Dynamic views. They have no effect in ClearCase Web
views.
Descriptions
Description properties are
available for UCM activities, baselines, elements, label types, UCM
projects, UCM components, streams, versions, views, and VOBs. The
text of this property is derived from comment metadata associated
with the object. If no comment was entered, no text is displayed for
the property.
- The Description property of an element
shows the element's creation comment. You can modify this comment
if you are the element's owner, the owner of the VOB that contains
the element, or a Rational ClearCase administrator.
- The Description property of a checked-out
version shows the version's checkout comment. You can modify this
comment if you checked out the version.
- The Description property of a VOB shows
the VOB's creation comment. You can modify this comment if you are
the VOB owner or a Rational ClearCase administrator.
Element and VOB Locks
With the Locks tab,
available in the VOB and Element properties dialog boxes, you can
lock an element or an entire VOB. This lock prevents any ClearCase user from modifying the element
or VOB.
- You can lock an element if you are the element's owner, the owner
of the VOB that contains the element, or a Rational ClearCase administrator.
- You can lock a VOB if you are the owner of the VOB or a Rational ClearCase administrator.
Note: Locking an element or VOB by using the Obsolete attribute
locks the element or VOB and also renders it invisible to certain ClearCase operations, none of which are
supported by the IBM Rational® ClearTeam Explorer™.