mkactivity

Creates an activity

Applicability

Product

Command type

ClearCase®

cleartool subcommand

Platform

UNIX®

Linux®

Windows®
Parent topic: Cleartool subcommands for UCM
Parent topic: Commands for managing software development projects (base ClearCase and UCM)
Parent topic: Rational ClearCase command reference

Synopsis

mkact/ivity [ –c/omment comment | –cfi/le pname | –cq/uery
| –cqe/ach | –nc/omment ] [ –hea/dline headline ]

[ –in stream-selector ] [ –nse/t ] [ –f/orce ] [ activity-selector ...]

Description

The mkactivity command creates an activity. Activities track the work you do in completing a development task. An activity consists of a headline, which describes the task, and a change set, which identifies all versions of elements that are created or modified by work on the activity.

Each stream can have one current activity, which records any changes being made. Use –nset if you do not want to use an activity immediately. To begin recording changes in an activity, issue a setactivity command from a view that is attached to the activity's stream.

Behavior for projects enabled for ClearQuest

When executed in a view that is associated with a project enabled for ClearQuest®, this command generates an error. The correct way to create an activity is to use the setactivity command, specifying a ClearQuest record ID as the activity-selector.

Restrictions

Identities

No special identity required.

Locks

An error occurs if one or more of these objects are locked: the project VOB.

Mastership

(Replicated VOBs only) No mastership restrictions.

Options and arguments

Assigning a headline to an activity

Default
The activity's name as specified by the activity-selector argument.
–hea/dline headline
Specifies a description of the activity. The headline argument can be a character string of any length. Enclose a headline with special characters in double quotes. The headline is applied to all activities created with this invocation of the command.

Specifying the stream

Default
The stream attached to the current view.
–in stream-selector
Specifies that the activity be created in this stream.

stream-selector is of the form [stream:]stream-name[@vob-selector], where vob-selector specifies the stream's project VOB.

Setting the current activity

Default
If one activity is created with this command: the newly created activity. If more than one activity is created or any number of activities is created outside a view context: none.
–nse/t
Specifies that the new activity not be set as the current activity for the view.

Confirmation step

Default
Prompts for confirmation of a generated name for the activity if no name is specified by activity-selector.
–f/orce
Suppresses the confirmation step.

Naming the activity

Default
If one activity is created with this command: a generated name. If more than one activity is created: none.
activity-selector ...
Specifies one or more activities to create.

You can specify an activity as a simple name or as an object selector of the form [activity]:name@vob-selector, where vob-selector specifies a project VOB (see the cleartool reference page). If you specify a simple name and the current directory is not a project VOB, this command assumes that the activity resides in the project VOB associated with the stream attached to the current view. If the current directory is a project VOB, that project VOB is the context for identifying the activity.

The activity name must be unique within the PVOB. All UCM objects share the same namespace. You'll get an error if the name you provide collides with the name of an existing UCM object, for example, a stream.

Examples

The UNIX system and Linux examples in this section are written for use in csh. If you use another shell, you may need to use different quoting and escaping conventions.

The Windows examples that include wildcards or quoting are written for use in cleartool interactive mode. If you use cleartool single-command mode, you may need to change the wildcards and quoting to make your command interpreter process the command appropriately.

In cleartool single-command mode, cmd-context represents the UNIX system and Linux shells or Windows command interpreter prompt, followed by the cleartool command. In cleartool interactive mode, cmd-context represents the interactive cleartool prompt.

  • Create an activity, but do not set it to be the current activity for the view.

    cmd-context mkact –nset
    Create activity with automatically generated name?  [yes] yes
    Created activity "activity990917.133218".

  • Create an activity. The activity is created in the stream attached to the current view.

    cmd-context mkact new_activity
    Created activity "new_activity".
    Set activity "new_activity" in view "java_int".

  • Create an activity whose name is generated automatically. You are not prompted for confirmation.

    cmd-context mkact -f
    Created activity "activity990917.134751".
    Set activity "activity990917.134751" in view "java_int".

  • Create an activity with the headline “Create directories”.

    cmd-context mkactivity -headline "Create directories" create_directories
    Created activity "create_directories".
    Set activity "create_directories" in view "webo_integ".

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