Defining Replication Configurations for Baselines

Purpose

Follow this procedure to create a new baseline replication configuration for the current DB site. The replication configuration enables you to filter the items in a baseline to be replicated.

Serena Dimensions Replicator replicates the items that match the configuration to the subordinate sites and then creates a baseline using those replicated items.

To define a replication configuration for a baseline:

From the Replication Administration main window, click the Configurations tab.
From the filter in the navigation area, select Baseline Master.
Click the New button: . The New Replication Configuration dialog box appears

with the General tab selected.

Enter a name for the configuration in the Configuration ID field, up to 25 characters.
Optionally, enter comments describing the configuration in the Description field, up 240 characters.
Leave Is replication enabled to the subordinates checked.
Optionally click the Branches tab and select all of the named version branches that you want to replicate.

Two special options include:

<ALL_LOCAL_BRANCHES>: Replicates all named branches owned by the master DB site to the subordinate DB sites.
<ALL_NAMED_BRANCHES>: Replicates all named branches on the master DB site to the subordinate DB sites except those that are owned by the subordinate DB sites.

Click the Item Types tab and select all of the item types that you want to replicate.
Click OK to create the configuration.