Select View Name dialogue opens when trying to access change set versions

Resolving The Problem

Options for displaying Change Set Versions

To display the change set versions in the activity:

1. From GUI, you can enter a valid view name in the Select View Name dialogue, even if:
• You do not own the activity or the view,
• The view is not attached to the stream that the activity is associated with, and
• The view is not a UCM view
  
  OR
  
  
2. From command line, you must be set into a view context when you execute:
• cleartool lsactivity -l activity:<act name>@\PVOB, or
• cleartool describe -l activity:<act name>@\PVOB

GUI

The GUI behavior is determined by the activity and view ownership.

Meaning, if you own the activity that you are opening the Properties for and own a view that is running on the local host, then the GUI will pre-populate the Select View Name pop-up with a view. Thus, you do not get prompted to enter a view name.

Note: When using a snapshot view, the view root must be accessible from the host if it is not local to that workstation.

The default functionality checks for and uses a view (owned by the logged in user) that is attached to the stream first, if one does not exist, then it will look for another view that is running and use that.

The natural way of selecting a view by ClearCase is:

1. an active dynamic view attached to the stream of the activity
2. a current working directory view (pwv) or started dynamic view
3. any active dynamic view
4. a snapshot view known to user attached to the stream of the activity
5. a current working directory view
6. snapshot view known to user

So when case 1 above does not select a view, the system takes case 2 or 3 and does not try case 4 which would succeed. This causes ClearCase to open an incorrect view.

A view context will allow the change set versions to get displayed correctly on the Change Set tab of the Properties window:

CLI

From command line, change into a view context when listing the details of a UCM activity:

M:\admin_proj1_dev_vu>ct lsactivity -l foo@\pvob1
activity "foo"
 2006-07-19T12:00:57-04 by admin.ccusers@IBM-D15F3483123
  owner: IBM-D15F3483123\adminn
  group: IBM-D15F3483123\ccusers
  stream: admin_proj1_dev@\pvob1
  current view: admin_proj1_dev_vu
  title: foo
  change set versions:
    M:\admin_proj1_dev\multivob\comp1\dir1@@\main\admin_proj1_dev2\2
    M:\admin_proj1_dev\multivob\comp1\dir1\beta.txt@@\main\admin_proj1_dev2\1
    M:\admin_proj1_dev\multivob\comp1@@\main\admin_proj1_dev2\2
    M:\admin_proj1_dev\multivob\comp1\dir1@@\main\admin_proj1_dev2\1
    M:\admin_proj1_dev\multivob\comp1\test1.txt@@\main\admin_proj1_dev2\3
    M:\admin_proj1_dev\multivob\comp1\test1.txt@@\main\admin_proj1_dev2\2

Review IBM Rational ClearCase Developing Software manual on the topic of Viewing a change set of an activity for more information.

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If this message occurs in the ClearQuest Client for Windows, the following workaround can be used:

WORKAROUND
The workaround is to use ClearQuest Eclipse instead of ClearQuest Client for Windows. In ClearQuest Client for Windows, the message appears automatically. In ClearQuest Eclipse, the message only appears if you click the View Change Set button on the UCM tab. So, in ClearQuest Eclipse, the message won't appear if you just happen to click on the UCM tab, unlike in ClearQuest for Windows Client.

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Feature Enhancement

Change request, (RFE) RATLC00693203, was opened concerning this functionality. It is requesting that the Select View Name pop-up not be required, or if the functionality cannot be changed, then it should provide a drop-down list of views to select from and or provide a Create View option.

The decision was made by Product Management to exclude the resolution of this feature from future upgrades and releases of ClearCase UCM due to the significant architectural changes required to implement the solution.