Rational Team Concert™ and Rational® Engineering
Lifecycle Manager exchange component baselines whenever a stream manager
receives or sends component baselines by using the Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager interface.
About this task
All send and receive operations are initiated from the Rational Engineering Lifecycle
Manager interface. The main usage scenarios are in "Day-to-day use
of the integration" in Integration workflow.
After
you connect a product to a stream, you must receive
component baselines from the stream before you
can send baselines to the stream.
Procedure
- Receive component baselines from a Rational
Team Concert stream.
- In Rational Engineering
Lifecycle Manager, open a Products screen by
clicking or Recently Viewed
Products.
- On the Products screen, find a
product that is connected to a stream.
The icon to the
left of a connected product looks like this:
This different
product icon shows that the product is in a special state; it is connected
to a stream. If this is the first receive operation for a connected
product, then it does not have components beneath it.
- Receive Rational
Team Concert component baselines from the stream. Right-click
the connected product and choose .
- Preview the incoming changes to the product tree in
the Preview SCM Components - Receive dialog
box.
The change summary, shown in the following image,
describes the state of the SCM components. If any SCM components will
not be included in the receive, they are added to one of the descriptions
in the change summary.

Following the change summary,
the Before column shows the component baselines
connected to products that are now in the product tree. The After column
shows the baselines to be added to the product tree after you receive
the SCM Components.
For additional information, place the cursor
over the small question mark in the change summary, and over the words Before and After in
the table.
All users: All component baselines
for the stream are pulled into Rational Engineering
Lifecycle Manager as child products.
When you receive baselines,
a pinned product version is not updated, regardless of the baseline
that is in the SCM stream.
Click the product to see the details
from Rational Team
Concert on the right. You can see the stream that the product
is connected to, the Rational
Team Concert server friend name or URL, and other information.
- You can restructure the flat Rational Team Concert component
baseline structure in Rational Engineering
Lifecycle Manager.
Move and reuse products that are
connected to streams and component baselines, and then send the products
back to Rational
Team Concert as component baselines. To learn more about restructuring,
see "Day-to-day use of the integration" in Integration workflow.
You
can also branch products that are connected to streams or component
baselines. See Creating a variation to branch a product
- Send component baselines to a Rational Team
Concert stream.
You must receive
component baselines from the stream at least once before you can perform
a send operation or the send fails. Rational Team Concert cannot
recognize the products that you send if the products are not connected
to a Rational Team
Concert stream. (A clue that you must receive component baselines
first is that the connected product you want to send does not have
components beneath it.)
If you received component baselines
from Rational Team
Concert and then restructured the component baselines by adding
or removing them, send the component baselines to the Rational Team Concert stream
to keep the stream in sync.
- In Rational Engineering
Lifecycle Manager, open a Products screen by
clicking or Recently Viewed
Products.
- In the Products screen, look for
the product that is connected to a stream.
- If you have many products, try filtering in the product grouping
list box by setting a custom product grouping, such as All
top-level products.
- If you have not yet received component baselines from Rational Team Concert into
the connected product, follow the instructions in step 1 to receive
component baselines first from Rational Team Concert.
- Send component baselines to the stream by right-clicking
over the connected product and selecting .
- Preview the outgoing changes from the product tree to
the SCM components in the Preview SCM Components - Send dialog
box.
The change summary, shown in the following image,
describes the state of the SCM components. If any SCM components will
not be included in the send, they are added to one of the descriptions
in the change summary.

Following the change summary,
the Before column shows the component baselines
that are now in the SCM stream. The After column
shows the baselines that are connected to products that are to be
used in the SCM stream after the send.
For additional information,
place the cursor over the small question mark in the change summary,
and over the words Before and After in
the table.
All users: All component baselines
for the stream are pulled into Rational Engineering
Lifecycle Manager as child products.
Click the product to see
the details from Rational
Team Concert on the right. You can see the stream that the product
is connected to, the Rational
Team Concert server friend name or URL, and other information.
- In Rational
Team Concert, refresh the stream.
You can see the
Rational Engineering Lifecycle
Manager products that you moved or reused in the Components section
in the Stream page.
Rational Team Concert shows
component baselines in a flat structure. If you created complex product
hierarchies in Rational Engineering
Lifecycle Manager, you cannot see them in Rational Team Concert. The
restructured product hierarchies remain in Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager.
What to do next
If you want to load only the components that your team
needs, see Generating load rules for component baselines.