The Workspaces Tab / The Open Workspace Dialog

Opening a Workspaces Tab

Invoking the Open Workspaces Command

Workspaces Tab Layout

Working in a Workspaces Tab

Controlling Which Workspaces are Displayed

Controlling the Data Displayed for Each Workspace

Operating on a Selected Workspace

Creating a New Workspace

The Workspaces tab displays summary information on some or all of the workspaces A location in which one or more users perform their work, using files under version control. Each workspace consists of a workspace stream in the repository, and a workspace tree in the user’s disk storage. in the AccuRev repository.

The Open Workspace dialog, a slight variant of the Workspaces tab, makes it easy to open a  File Browser tab on a selected workspace.

From either one, you can create a new workspace.

Opening a Workspaces Tab

Choose View > Workspaces from the GUI main menu.

Invoking the Open Workspaces Command

Choose File > Open Workspace from the GUI main menu, or click the button in the GUI main toolbar.

Workspaces Tab Layout

The Workspaces tab contains a table with these columns:

User

(appears if Show all workspaces is checked) The user who owns the workspace.

Status

(appears if Show including hidden is checked) Active indicates that the workspace is available for use. Inactive indicates that the workspace is currently deactivated (but can be reactivated).

Name

The simple name of the workspace, including the suffix that indicates the user who owns the workspace.

Location

The pathname of the workspace tree The ordinary directory tree, located in the user's disk storage, in which the user performs development tasks and executes AccuRev commands. on the machine where it resides.

Host

The name or IP address of the machine where the workspace tree resides.

Stream#

The integer stream-ID of the workspace. This number is unique with the workspace's depot only, not across the entire repository. [note More precisely, this integer identifies the private workspace stream The private stream that is built into a workspace. All new versions of elements are originally created in workspaces; AccuRev records these versions in workspace streams. that is an integral part of the workspace. A depot's streams, snapshots, and workspaces share the same "pool" of stream-IDs.]

Target Transaction

(appears if Show details is checked) The depot's transaction level The number of the most recently completed transaction for a particular depot. See update level. at the time the Update command was most recently invoked on the workspace. Update attempts to load versions created in transactions up to and including the target transaction. If the Target Transaction and Update Level are the same, the workspace's most recent update completed successfully.

Update Level

(appears if Show details is checked) The highest-numbered transaction whose versions have been copied to the workspace in an update The operation (update command) that copies new versions of elements into a workspace from its parent stream..

Type

(appears if Show details is checked) An integer that indicates the type of workspace stream: 1 (standard workspace), 9 (exclusive-file-locking), or 17 (anchor-required).

EOL

(appears if Show details  is checked) The type of line terminator used when an update copies text-file versions to the workspace tree: Auto (line terminator used by host machine's OS), UNIX (NL), or Windows (CR-LF).

Working in a Workspaces Tab

You can apply filters to control the amount of data displayed in the workspaces table, and you can perform a number of operations on a selected workspace.

See also:

AccuRev's standard table-manipulation operations

Controlling Which Workspaces are Displayed

Show including hidden

If checked, the table includes workspaces that have been deactivated with the Remove command. This also adds a Status column; deactivated workspaces have Inactive status, and are shaded.

Show all workspaces

If checked, the table includes workspaces created by all users. This also adds a User column.

If cleared, the table includes your workspaces only.

Controlling the Data Displayed for Each Workspace

Show details

If checked, the table includes these columns: Target Transaction, Update Level, Type, and EOL.

Operating on a Selected Workspace

You can choose any of the following commands from the context menu of a selected workspace:

Open (Workspaces tab)

Ok (Open Workspace dialog)

Using a File Browser tab, display the entire contents of the workspace.

Edit

Modify the configuration of the workspace.

Reactivate

Bring back into active service a workspace that was previously deactivated with the Remove command.

Remove

Deactivate a workspace. The workspace cannot be used to perform AccuRev commands, although the workspace tree is not changed in any way. The workspace no longer appears in the Stream Browser display (unless you use the Stream Browser's Show including hidden option).

You can use the Reactivate command to bring back a Remove'd workspace.

Creating a New Workspace

Click the New button at the bottom of the Workspaces tab to invoke the New Workspace wizard.