Teams usually create a baseline to mark a milestone,
for example, a weekly build, a beta release, or a general release.
About this task
Creating a baseline is useful if you must branch a product
or if your product is at a point where no further development should
be undertaken for a milestone.
You can create baselines for
products that are connected to Rational Team Concert™ streams
and component baselines by creating a baseline of the product configuration
with checked-in child products. (The child products are connected
to streams and component baselines.)
Procedure
- On the Products page, right-click
over the product configuration you want to capture and select Create
a Baseline.
- Enter the baseline name.
Example: The transmission
product for a car might have a sprint 2 baseline.
The product name that you see in the Browse Products page
is Transmission - sprint 2.
The baseline
contains a non-modifiable configuration. The configuration that you
used to create the baseline remains modifiable, so your team can continue
their work. In the following image, the arrow points to the modifiable
configuration and the box highlights the non-modifiable baseline.

- Create a modifiable copy of the baseline by right-clicking
the baseline and selecting Create a Modifiable Copy.
Optionally, change the configuration name. You can also set
dimensions and values.
If you want to use dimension and value
pairs for a configuration, you can add them now or later. Read about
the behavior of dimensions in the Create a Copy dialog
box, in the Dimensions hover help.
A
modifiable copy is useful if you want to add another configuration
with a few differences.
Example: You add a Deck configuration
to a Longboard skateboard product, where you
need the Wood product for the deck, but not
the Griptape. You can create a modifiable copy
of the Deck configuration, remove the Griptape product,
but keep the Wood product and the other products
in the Deck configuration.