What's the Difference?

Hi!

Waht's the difference between copying a module in another folder and archiving a module and extract the archive in another folder?

 

The Problem is: I have a module, which I will duplicate with ALL Information, especially links!

Edit: I can answer the question by myself. The copied module Contents the links. There are additional other differences between copying and archiving/import Archive?

 

Thank you for your answer!


bandchef - Fri Oct 18 03:40:29 EDT 2013

Re: What's the Difference?
Mathias Mamsch - Fri Oct 18 06:35:24 EDT 2013

Technically they are pretty much give you the same when it comes to content (allthough I did not  check Discussions on DOORS 9, does anyone know if discussions are archived/restored or copied?).

There might be another difference I guess: Access Rights. When restoring a module I am not sure if access rights are restored or set to inherited (As far as I remember they are set to inherited). When copying a module access rights might stay intact (you might want to verify this).

Of course you can do a couple of things with an archive that you cannot do using a copy, e.g. restoring baselines, etc.

Hope this helps, Regards, Mathias

Re: What's the Difference?
llandale - Fri Oct 18 12:03:11 EDT 2013

Mathias Mamsch - Fri Oct 18 06:35:24 EDT 2013

Technically they are pretty much give you the same when it comes to content (allthough I did not  check Discussions on DOORS 9, does anyone know if discussions are archived/restored or copied?).

There might be another difference I guess: Access Rights. When restoring a module I am not sure if access rights are restored or set to inherited (As far as I remember they are set to inherited). When copying a module access rights might stay intact (you might want to verify this).

Of course you can do a couple of things with an archive that you cannot do using a copy, e.g. restoring baselines, etc.

Hope this helps, Regards, Mathias

Seems to me "copying" will preserve OUT links to the other modules but will not copy over the Baselines.  Seems to me access rights are preserved when you restore in the same database as the archive.  Seems to me Neither preserves LinkSetPairings.