Manipulating products

Products are flexible artifacts. You can mark often-used products as favorites and then filter the products you see in the Products page to show your favorites only. You can reuse products as child products in multiple products or in the same product. You can move a product and include it as a child product in a different product. You can rename a product, and the new name is propagated to wherever the product was reused. If you no longer need a product, you can remove it.

Procedure

  1. Mark a product as a favorite.
    1. In the Products page, find the product that you want to mark.
    2. Click the Add to Favorite Products icon, which is an empty star to the left of the product. The star fills in with color, which signifies that this product is a favorite.
    3. Filter the products in the Products page to show only favorites by changing the Browse Products pull-down menu to Favorite Products.
  2. Reuse a product.
    1. In the Browse Products page, find the product that you want to reuse, right-click it and choose Reuse.
    2. Right-click another product and click Place.

      When products and their descendants are reused and placed anywhere in the product tree, the products are reused by reference. Each product has only one instance in the list of products in the tree. That product can be referenced in one or more locations.

      If you want a copy of a product, you must create a product.

      To reuse child products by creating references, hold the Control key and select the child products that you want. Right-click and select Reuse, and then place the child products under the correct product.

  3. Move a product.
    1. In the Browse Products page, find the product that you want to move, right-click it and choose Move.
    2. Right-click another product and click Place.
  4. Drag and drop a product.

    In the Browse Products page, find the product that you want to move or reuse, drag it to move it to another product or CTRL-drag it to reuse it in another product.

  5. Rename a product.
    1. In the Browse Products page, find the product that you want to rename, right-click it and choose Rename.
    2. In the Rename dialog, change the name and then click OK.
  6. Remove a product.
    1. In the Browse Products page, find the product that you want to remove, right-click it and choose Remove.
    2. In the Confirm Remove dialog, choose to remove the product but keep it in the repository or delete it permanently from the repository.
    3. Click Remove.

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