Views

All users in an HCL VersionVault community require access to one or more views to do their work.

Views provide several important functions:
  • Access to VOB data
  • Workspaces where users can modify VOB data
  • Short-term storage for other data created during the development process

A typical view contains a combination of versioned artifacts (versions of VOB elements) and unversioned artifacts (view-private files that do not exist in any VOB).

There are three types of views:
  • Snapshot views, which contain copies of versions of specified VOB elements, along with view-private objects. Snapshot views must be updated manually to access new versions that have been checked in to the VOB from other views.
  • Web views, which are similar to snapshot views but are accessed from the HCL VersionVault Remote Client.
  • Dynamic views, which provide transparent access to versions of elements in the VOB and to view-private objects. A dynamic view can access any version of an element selected by the view's config spec as soon as the version is checked in.

Unlike VOBs, which are long-lived repositories, typically created and maintained by an administrator, views tend to be short lived and are usually created by individual developers. View administration is simpler than VOB administration, involving little more than occasional backups, periodic maintenance, and attention to access control issues. Views and view administration and the mkview reference page provide more information about views and view administration.