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# Update Work Area from Requests wizard

This wizard helps you to update a work area with changes from requests.

Field | Description | Rules and Guidelines
--- | --- | ---
Update changes from this stream | Displays the name of the stream from which you invoked the update. |
Update changes from the request(s) | Displays the selected change requests. To add change requests enter their IDs and separate each with a comma. To specify different change requests, click Select and use the Request Selection wizard to specify a product and change requests. | The selected requests must contain changes that were delivered to the same stream.
Update this work area | Select the work area that will be updated. |
Perform an interactive update | Interactively review the changes before applying them to the work area. |
Also include items related to child requests | Updates all items that are related to child Dimensions CM requests of the selected requests. |
Advanced | Displays advanced options. |
Include repository files | Enter an expression to only include specific file types in the update. | `*` is a wildcard character that matches any number of characters. `?` matches any single character. `|` joins or concatenates multiple expressions. `\` is a separator for folders and directories (Windows and UNIX).
Exclude repository files | Enter an expression to exclude specific file types from the update. | See above
Apply repository date and time | Apply the repository date and time to the files in the work area. |
Expand substitution variables | Expand item header substitution variables for items being updated. | Item headers are only expanded if the item type has Enable item header substitution set in the Administration Console.
Auto merge non-conflicting file content | Automatically merge files whose content does not conflict. You can also select a default character set that is used to transcode Unicode files before merging. |
Next | Click to update the work area. If there are conflicts, or if you selected an interactive update, the Review Changes page is displayed. |

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