Editing Change Package Properties

A selected change package's properties can be viewed in the Change Perspective, but when the change package is re-opened in the View Compare/Merge session, its properties can be edited with the VCM Session Properties dialog box. This dialog box servers several purposes. It allows you not only to view or change the properties of the change package, but it also allows you to commit the changes if the session was new, add or change the change session labels, and add a comment for the committed revision.

This procedure assumes you have already saved one or more change packages that will be visible in Change Perspective of the target view in which it resides.

Note: Each change package is saved in the target view.

To edit change package properties, do the following:

  1. In the StarTeam Cross-Platform Client, open the target view of the change package.
  2. On the right side of the toolbar, click the Show Change Perspective icon to switch to the Change Perspective.

    Note: If the change package is committed it cannot be edited further.

  3. Select the change package.
  4. Click Change Package > Open (in VCM) to reopen the change package as an active View Compare/Merge session.
  5. Choose VCM Session > Properties to open the Change Session Properties dialog box.
  6. Modify the properties as desired.

    Note: If the session was uncommitted, you can change any of the properties for the session. However, if the session was committed before you reopened it in the VCM session, the only properties you will be able to change are the Default or Alternate working folder.

  7. Click OK.