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Workspaces
Workspaces provide the flexibility to take projects down different routes from a common source while maintaining traceability.
Modeling is a creative, iterative process, where you need to capture a model at a moment in time, as a baseline. System Architect enables you to evolve the model in workspaces, which you can use to evolve scenarios or projects. You can create Team or Project work areas, based on a common Baseline. This makes it easy to view changes against a Baseline and to merge multiple Projects together to form a new Baseline. You can also model multiple scenarios (in a “to-be” state) from a common Baseline (in a “as-is” state). Workspaces provide the flexibility to take projects down different routes from a common source while maintaining traceability.
Workspaces extend the concept of working collaboratively in an encyclopedia. They offer detailed traceability, comparisons between an original and an evolved encyclopedia version, and workspace merging. Workspaces also reduce the need to work in separate encyclopedias, which reduces the need for administrators to create new encyclopedias, reduce the time to switch between versions, and reduces workplace complexity. Users can have multiple workspaces, evolve a workspace or multiple workspaces from a baseline, and can safely work on one workspace at a time.
Notes
There is only one root workspace for an encyclopedia.
All workspaces created from the root workspace inherit the parent baseline.
You can view an encyclopedia baseline but you cannot edit it because it is read-only.
Users can only work on one workspace at a time. When you change the active workspace all open items will be closed.
A modeling team can collaborate on the same workspace.
Workspace restrictions
Is not intended to allow you to take multiple encyclopedias and bring them into one encyclopedia under a pseudo folder structure.
Does not allow different property sets in a single encyclopedia.
Does not enable “packaging” or “namespaces” for objects (allowing more than one object of the same name).
Does not enable access control grouping at a higher level.
Should not be used to solve orthogonal issues.
See also
Workspace administrators and users
Selecting a workspace
Creating a workspace
Merge workspace overview
Workspaces and System Architect utilities
Overview of using basic capabilities