Notes on Promote-by-Issue : Promote-by-Issue Basics

Promote-by-Issue Basics
(This section paraphrases the information in section “Viewing a Stream's Current Development Activity” of the “Stream Browser” help topic for the AccuRev GUI.)
The Stream Browser can show the development activity currently taking place in each stream or workspace. A control below the stream or workspace opens or closes a subwindow that displays the details of the development activity. The activity details can appear in several ways — by element, by transaction, or by issue record.
Use the development-activity mode controls at the right side of the Stream Browser toolbar to determine how the activity details will be displayed. (The icons on the controls below the streams and workspace change accordingly.) You can change modes either before or after opening a development-activity subwindow.
When displaying a stream's activity by issue record, the subwindow displays the issue records that are in a particular stream:
(This display is the same as the results of a Show Active Issues or Stream Diff by Issues command. In this note, all the examples use the Stream Browser’s development activity subwindow, but you can perform promote-by-issue operations in these other contexts, also.)
Promote-by-issue involves selecting one or more issue records and performing any of the following operations:
Invoking the Promote command from the subwindow’s toolbar or the context menu of the issue(s).
Drag-and-drop’ing the issue record(s) onto another stream or workspace in the Stream Browser display. The destination can be the parent (backing) stream, another dynamic stream, or one of your workspaces. This invokes a Promote or Send to Workspace operation on all the elements in the selected issue record(s).
You can also drag-and-drop the subwindow control to another stream. This performs the Promote or Send to Workspace operation on all the issue records in the subwindow (even if only some of them are currently selected).
The following sections explore several promote-by-issue scenarios.
Note: in the remainder of this technical note, we shorten the term “issue record” to “issue”.

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