Promoting specific versions

The underlying meaning and philosophy associated with promoting files under control is a bit involved. A full discussion of this is provided in the Configuration & Personalization chapter of this manual, under the heading "File and thread STATEs" on page 213. We'll limit this discussion to performing a promotion from the GUI.

To do a promotion, the user would highlight one or more files from the main scrolling list of the versions program and select the Promote button. The following panel will appear.




The panel allows the user to promote a selected version of the file to one of the allowable state levels. This promotion can be associated with one or more issues from the problem tracking system (as discussed earlier), and can even have some supplementary text as well. Each time the Apply button is selected on the panel, it will sequence to the next file that was chosen from the main display.