Opening a Configuration Management Project

Operation	Procedure
To choose a project to open in the GUI	Select one of the following: • Project > Open Project • File > Open > Project
To open a regular project from the Projects view in the GUI	Select the project, and then Project > View Project or File > Open > Selected.
To open a build project from the Project History view in the GUI	Select a checkpoint, and then Project > View Project.
To open a project as of a specific date in the GUI.	Select Project > Open Project to launch the Open Project Wizard window and select a project. In the panel that selects the project configuration, selecting As Of specifies a Project view based on a project configuration as of a specified date (date-based project configuration). When the As Of option is selected, the Project Branch option becomes available to specify a Branch ID value. Specifying the branch ID is the only way to specify a date-based project configuration for a development path that was dropped. The branch ID is the ID of the branch that the development path was on. For example, if the last checkpoint on the development path was project revision 1.1.1.2, then the branch ID is 1.1.1. For more information, see Working With Date-Based Project Configurations.
To open a recently used project in the GUI	Select Project > Recent or File > Recent > Project, then select a project from the list.
To open a project in the Web interface	Select one of the following from the File menu: • Open Project • Open Variant Project • Open Build Project The list displayed contains only master projects; subprojects are not accessible by this procedure.
To open a project by typing a URL in the Web interface	If you know the location of a project, you can open it by typing the following URL in a browser: http://<server>:<port>/si/viewproject?projectName=<(sub)projectname> For example: http://xyzBusiness:7001/si/viewproject?projectName=c:/master_projects/SourceCode/project.pj.
To open a variant project from a Project view in the Web interface	Select Project > Open Variant Project.

When opening a project in the GUI, you can type in or select the project to open. If you are opening a variant or build subproject, initially only enter the path and name of the root project. You specify the subproject later in the procedure. When specifying the subproject, there are rules that control what project configuration you can jump to. If your selection breaks any of the rules, you cannot open the project.