Creating a New Baseline Template

Purpose

Follow this procedure when you want to create a new template to specify which items are included in a baseline. Once you have created the template, you can then define its selection criteria.

PRIVILEGES Manage Baseline and Release Templates

To create a new baseline template:

From the Baseline and Release Templates main window, select Baseline Templates from the list in the navigation pane.

Do one of the following:

If you want to...	Then...
Create a new template from scratch	Click the New button: in the main window.
Create a new template based on an existing template	Select the template you want to copy in the navigation pane and click the Copy button: in the main window.

The New Baseline Template dialog box or Copy Baseline Template dialog box appears.

Enter a name for the new template in the Template ID field.
For a new template, select item or request for the Scope.
Click OK to create the template.

Once the template has been created, you can subsequently define the selection criteria, as described in Defining the Selection Criteria for a Baseline or Release Template.