Create a new version of an asset
when an existing asset has been improved to solve a new business problem
or be used in a different context and when you want to preserve the
older, existing version of the asset.
About this task
For example, create a new version
when:
- you have a new version of an existing software asset that you want others to use;
- an existing asset has been modified to work in a different environment or business unit;
- you want to modify an asset's descriptive metadata or artifacts and also want to preserve the older asset so others can find it; or
- you want to keep separate governance information, usage statistics, or other metadata from version to version of an asset.
Creating
a new version of an existing asset provides the following additional
benefits:
- Instead of entering all of the information for a completely new asset, you can modify the previous artifacts and asset metadata from the existing asset.
- Rational® Asset Manager will display other versions of an asset and allow you to browse to older and newer versions of an asset from the General Details page.
- Bookmark an asset and remove the version number from the URL to have a bookmark that will always open the newest version of an asset.
- Users will be able to find and see older versions of the asset.
To learn more about the version formats and relationships by using the version numbers that you provide, see the reference topic Asset version formatting.
If you do not want to create a new asset, you can modify an asset without creating a new version.
Procedure
- In My Dashboard or the Asset Details
page, click the Create new version icon
. The Submit an Asset
wizard will open. - On the Describe page, type a new version in the Version field.
- If necessary, modify any of the asset's descriptive attributes, attached artifacts, categories, or relationships.
- After making any necessary changes, click Save.
What to do next
Note: If you and another user
update the same
asset at the same time, asset collision will occur and you will be
prompted to overwrite the existing data on the server. To fix this,
cancel your updates and merge your changes manually.