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
- Change a project to have a custom purpose.
- Right-click over a project and select Properties.
If you need to find a project, see Finding an object.
- In the Properties dialog box, change the purpose to Custom Development.
- Click Apply to save changes.
- Right-click over the appropriate project grouping and select Properties.
- In the Properties dialog box, click the Baseline Projects tab to view the current baseline.
- Select a different baseline for the project grouping.
- 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.
- Choose the baseline and click OK.
- Adding tasks to a project grouping.