You can use Eclipse projects with shared work areas that exist outside of the Eclipse workspace, see Sharing Work Areas with Other Dimensions Clients. If you have previously set up Eclipse projects with work areas under the Eclipse workspace, or fetch projects or streams containing Eclipse projects with clients other than the Eclipse client, you can still use these projects with shared work areas. Dimensions CM provides an auto-sharing feature that allows you to get existing eclipse projects and then import them into Eclipse.
In Eclipse select Window | Preferences.
Expand Team, then select Dimensions | Version Management.
Make sure that the Auto share on import option is selected, and click OK.
Using the desktop or command-line client, download the stream or project that contains the Eclipse projects. Download into a work area of your choice, so long as it resides outside of the Eclipse workspace. You can download an entire stream or project at once, or just the subfolder or folders that contain the Eclipse projects you want to use with the new work areas. You must ensure that the Eclipse marker files are included.
In Eclipse, select File | Import.
On the Import dialog box, under General, select Existing Project into Workspace.
Click Next.
On the Import Projects screen, choose the Select root directory option. Enter or browse to select the root directory under which the eclipse projects you want to import reside. When you import, Eclipse will automatically detect and share the projects under this root location.
IMPORTANT! Do not select the Copy projects into workspace option.
Optionally select Add project to working sets if you want to add the imported project(s) to the selected working set.
Click Finish. If prompted, enter Dimensions login credentials.
The Eclipse projects are imported and automatically shared with Dimensions CM. You can now work with them in Eclipse, as well as update the files in the work area from other clients such as the desktop or command-line client.