snapshot in RTC
Hi,
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The "promote" baseline operation was just renamed to be "change owner" (both to avoid a terminology conflict with the promote operation provided by the Enterprise Extensions, and because it really was just changing the owner).
The old "promote" operation never moved any baselines to any streams ... all it ever did was change the owner of that snapshot ... another reason for changing the name of the operation to be "change owner"). If you want to move baselines from one stream to another, you need to use either the "deliver" operation or the "replace" operation.
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Thanks for the answer Geoffrey! I have couple of follow up questions.
1) No. But first you need to clarify what you mean by "move baseline". If you mean "merge", you would use a deliver or accept operation. If you mean "set it to be that baseline", you would use the replace operation.
2) A snapshot is a way of specifying a set of baselines, one per component. But if you are using a 6.x version of RTC, you now have hierarchical baselines, and those are usually better than snapshots (snapshots have largely been kept for backward compatibility).
3) The owner of the snapshot just is a way to group snapshots in the GUI.