Configuring a View to Display Non-Branched Files

If you use a branch-all variant view with item configurations set to a specific timestamp, you may periodically want to catch up the parent view with changes in the branched (child) view by performing a Re-base operation. While you can do this with View Compare/Merge, when a branch-all variant view is used as an Activity view, many files will not have been modified and hence will not have been branched. In this case, the non-branched files can be more quickly re-based with the main view by simply altering their configuration timestamp.

This procedure is a quick way to pull out all files that have not branched yet, and create a new view label to see them separately. This allows you to re-base the view on a controlled basis. The branched files, of course, have to be merged separately.

To display non-branched files and rebase them to a newer configuration from the parent view, do the following:

1. Right-click the column heading and choose Sort and Group.
2. Click Show Advanced Fields in the Sort and Group dialog box.
3. Change the sorting/grouping order so that the display groups by Branch State, followed by whatever else you normally like to see (such as sort by Status, then Name, and so on.)
4. Click OK.

   The non-branched files will be displayed in the upper pane.

5. Right-click the non-branched files and choose Advanced > Behavior.
6. Click the Configuration tab of the Folder Behavior dialog box.
7. Change the Configuration Date to a new timestamp, for example, the latest view label and click OK.