Using a different baseline

A developer who wants full control over the way his projects are updated can create a project grouping with a Custom Development purpose; he can then manually choose a baseline and a list of tasks to be used for all of his custom projects for a particular release.

For example, if a developer needs to configure his projects to be exactly like the last baseline, but with four additional tasks, he could create a project with a Custom Development purpose, set the project grouping baseline to match the last release, and add the four tasks. (This would be useful for a small team developing a patch without the initial support of a build manager.)

The following procedure shows the actions required to use a different baseline.

Procedure

  1. Change a project to have a custom purpose.
    1. Right-click over a project and select Properties.

      If you need to find a project, see Finding an object.

    2. In the Properties dialog box, change the purpose to Custom Development.
    3. Click Apply to save changes.
  2. Right-click over the appropriate project grouping and select Properties.
  3. In the Properties dialog box, click the Baseline Projects tab to view the current baseline.
  4. Select a different baseline for the project grouping.
    1. Click the Select Baseline button.

      The Select Baseline dialog box appears. By default, baselines display in the results field based on the project grouping release, for example, toolkit/2.0.

    2. Choose the baseline and click OK.
  5. Adding tasks to a project grouping.

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