Disassociating repository libraries

If you prefer to remove all assets or asset metadata from a library and place all assets or metadata in the general repository, disassociate a library to make its contents available on the repository.

Before you begin

To work with repository libraries, you must be a repository administrator.

About this task

Disassociating the library will place the contents of the library into general use on the repository while also disabling the library. You may want to do this when you have imported and enabled a library, and you no longer want to work with libraries.

Disassociating a library is permanent. When you disassociate a library, its assets and metadata structures are available in the repository; however, those assets and metadata structures no longer have the access and version controls that a library provides.

After you have disassociated a library, you can delete the library without deleting its assets and metadata from the repository.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Rational® Asset Manager web client as a repository administrator.
  2. Click Administration.
  3. In the Repository Administration sidebar, click Libraries. The Libraries page opens. By default, all libraries on the repository are shown. To see only enabled libraries, click View Enabled.
  4. To open the library to disassociate, click the version number of the library.
  5. Click Disassociate. If the library is not currently enabled, click Enable and Disassociate.
  6. If necessary, resolve conflicts with the repository and with other libraries:
    1. Review conflicts with other libraries that are enabled or with assets or metadata that are active on the repository but that are not under the control of a library.
      Attention:

      If the assets or asset metadata in the library that you are enabling are on the repository and another library does not manage them, the library that you enable will overwrite that information on the repository. For example, if you import a library with a category schema Best Practices that exists on the repository, the version of Best Practices that is associated with the library will overwrite the schema that is currently on the repository. This cannot be undone.

      If there are conflicts between libraries, the assets or metadata in the library that you are enabling will replace the existing elements from other libraries. To undo this, you can enable, disassociate, or revert the other library.

    2. Click Disassociate or Enable and Disassociate.

Results

The contents of the library will now be active on the repository and the library will be disabled; the library will no longer cause conflicts with other libraries.

After you have disassociated a library, you can delete the library without deleting its assets and metadata from the repository.


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