Copying Projects or Project Baselines

Copy an existing project or project baseline to a new project.

If the original project or baseline includes schedules, the scheduling options are set to none during the copy.

CAUTION:
Copying a project or project baseline can lock the database for several minutes, depending on the size of the project or project baseline. It is recommended to copy projects or project baselines during off-hours, when user activity on Silk Central is minimal. It is not possible to copy more than one project or project baseline at a time.
Tip: Especially if large projects are written to the database, this can significantly slow down performance of the database. We strongly recommend to do a full index rebuild for the Silk Central database schema within your next maintenance window.

To copy a project or project baseline:

  1. In the menu, click Projects > Project List . The Projects page displays, listing all existing projects and project baselines.
  2. Click Copy project in the Actions column of the project or project baseline you want to copy. The Copy Project dialog box displays.
  3. In the New project name field, type a name for the new project.
  4. Check the check boxes of any additional information types you want to have copied along with the new project. When you check the Test history check box, the versions are also copied. For detailed information on the check boxes, see Copy Project Dialog Box.
  5. Click OK.
  6. If no Issue Manager project is initialized for the project you are copying, go on with step 10. If an Issue Manager project is initialized, a dialog box appears:
    • If you want to reuse the existing Issue Manager project, click Yes and go on with step 10.
    • If you do not want to reuse the existing Issue Manager project but if you want to copy it, click No and go on with step 7.
    Independent of whether you choose to reuse the existing Issue Manager project or not, any copied issue tracking profiles will continue to point to the original Issue Manager project.
  7. Check the Copy Issues check box to copy all of the source project’s existing issues to the new project.
  8. Check Copy Archived Issues to copy all of the source project’s archived issues to the new project.
  9. Click OK.
  10. Click Yes on the Copy Project dialog box, confirming that you want to begin the copy process and that you know the process may take several minutes. When the copy process is complete, a dialog box informs you what has been copied and asks you if you want to activate the project, thereby making the project available in Silk Central’s project view.
Parent topic: Working with Projects