Creating Baselines

You can create a baseline from any project in the repositories you are connected to.

The following baseline types are available:

- A baseline that uses a specific baseline template that determines which revisions to include, and that is scoped by design part.

- A design baseline that represents the current product design structure, or a part of it.

- A tip baseline that includes the latest revisions of all files in a project.

- A revised baseline, which is a baseline that is derived from an existing baseline by adding or removing item revisions that are related to requests.

To create a baseline:

1. In Dimensions Explorer, click New > Baseline.

   Or in the Dimensions Project view, right-click the project or stream from which you want to create a baseline, and select New > Baseline.

NOTE If the project or stream for which you want to create a baseline is not open, right-click the Favorite Dimensions Projects node and select Add to Favorites. The Dimensions Projects tab appears with a list of all projects in the product. You can then right-click the project for which you want to create a baseline and select New Baseline.

2. Choose the product containing the project or stream.

3. Enter a baseline ID.

4. Select the baseline type from the Type list.

5. In the Create baseline from field do one of the following:

- Enter a text string for the stream or project ID. Streams and projects that contain any characters in the string are displayed. For example, to find QLARIUS:VS_BRANCHA, enter vs.

- Select a stream or project from the list. Favorites and recently used streams and projects are displayed at the top.

6. Click Next.

7. Select a baseline template from the Use following template list. The baseline template determines which requests or items to include in the baseline. To create a design baseline, do not select a template.

8. Enter a design part ID in the Design part field, or click the Browse button to search for a design part. This field identifies the top level design part in the design part hierarchy from which you will baseline items. You can include any number of levels of children of this design part using the Part levels option.

9. The Part levels options enable you to choose the levels in the design part hierarchy from which to include items, starting from the top level design part you entered in the Design part field. To include items from all design parts under the top design part, select All. To specify the number of levels from which to include items, select the From top to option and enter or click to choose a number. For example, if you select From top to and enter 3, then items will be included from the top three levels of the design part hierarchy, starting with the design part you entered in the Design part field.

10. Click Next.

11. Enter any requests to relate to this baseline. Or browse to select requests from the My Inbox or Favorites tabs.

    If you selected a request baseline template, the baseline will include any items that have an In Response To relationship to the requests you enter here. If you selected an item baseline template, the requests you enter here will just be related to the baseline but have no effect on the content of the baseline.

12. Click Next.

13. Specify any required use-defined attributes, and click Next.

14. Review a summary of the new baseline, and click Finish.