What is a Baseline Template?

A baseline template is a set of rules which determines which Dimensions CM items are included and excluded from a baseline.

For details about baselines, see Baselines.

The following types of baseline templates are available:

- Item Baseline Templates.

- Request Baseline Templates.

For an item baseline template, you specify the criteria for inclusion and exclusion of item revisions by defining a set of rules based on the item's type, revision, status, or build stage, and item relationships.

For a request baseline template, you specify the criteria for inclusion of item revisions based on a specified group of Dimensions CM requests to which the item revisions are related as In Response To, or optionally Info. You do this by defining a set of rules for the selection of these requests.

Release and archive baselines are defined by their associated templates; whereas a design baseline is essentially defined by the absence of an associated template in that the baseline will include all revisions of the items from the top-level design part and its subordinate design parts (regardless of their status). Baseline templates are unique with respect to the base database; they are not restricted to particular products. Release baselines only include one revision of each item. Baselines based on a request baseline template are always release baselines.

Baseline templates are defined using the Administration Console Baseline and Release Templates function.

Related Topics

About Item Baseline Template Selection Criteria

About Request Baseline Template Selection Criteria

What is a Release Template?