6. Diff, Merge, and Change Palette : Opening a Change Palette Tab

Opening a Change Palette Tab
Before using the Change Palette itself, you must specify the version(s) that are to be promoted 'outside the lines' of the depot’s stream hierarchy. You can do this in the variety of contexts listed below.
From a StreamBrowser: Selected items from a current development activity subwindow
The current development activity subwindow shows the development activity currently taking place in a stream or workspace -- by element, by transaction, or by issue record. In this subwindow, you can:
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Invoke the Send to Change Palette command, using the toolbar button or the selection's context menu.
From a StreamBrowser: All the versions with changes that have not been propagated to the destination
Instead of selecting individual versions, you can let AccuRev determine the complete set of versions in a source stream that have not yet been propagated to a destination stream or workspace.
This can include versions that are not currently in the source stream’s default group at all, but are inherited from a higher-level stream.
Click the control below the source stream, and drag it to the destination stream or workspace.
From the Details pane of a File Browser, opened on a stream: Selected versions from the default group
This is essentially the same as working in a Default Group subwindow in the StreamBrowser:
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Invoke the Send to Change Palette command, using the toolbar button or the selection's context menu.
From a History Browser or Active Transactions tab, opened on a stream: All the versions in specified transaction(s)
A History Browser tab shows all the transactions that created (via Promote) versions in a stream. An Active Transactions tab shows the subset of these transactions with at least one version still active in the stream. In either one, you can load a Change Palette with the versions created one or more selected transactions.
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Invoke the Send to Change Palette command, using the toolbar button or the selection's context menu.
From a History Browser or Active Transactions tab, opened on a stream: Specified version(s) from one transaction
This is similar to the previous case: instead of loading a Change Palette with all the versions created in a transaction, you load selected versions from a transaction.
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Invoke the Send to Change Palette command, using the toolbar button or the selection's context menu.
From a Stream Issues tab, opened on a stream: All the versions in the change package(s) of the specified issue record(s)
A Stream Issues tab shows the issue records whose change packages are "in" a particular stream.
Each change package contains a "patch" of data from one or more text-file elements. You can load a Change Palette tab with the versions in one or more issue records' change packages:
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Invoke the Send to Change Palette command, using the toolbar button or the selection's context menu.
In all cases, a new Change Palette tab appears, loaded with the versions you've specified.

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