dynamic - When I create views from Clearcase explorer, both development and the integration views get created as snapshot

Question

I do not get the option at all to choose for the views to be snapshot or dynamic. What I would want is the development view to be snapshot and the integration view to be dynamic. Why is it that I am not prompted to let me choose my views to be snapshot/dynamic?

Answer 1

May be you have ClearCase LT, which only provides snapshot view ?

As mentioned in the ClearCase mkview help page:

Specifying the kind of view

Default

• ClearCase: Dynamic view.
• ClearCase LT: Snapshot view

Anyway, you can try to create your views through command line cleartool:

• Snapshot:

    cleartool mkview -snap -tag yourView_snap -stream yourStream@yourPVob -stg aStorage aViewPath
  

• Dynamic:

    cleartool mkview -tag yourView -stream yourStream@yourPVob -stg aStorage
  

Please note the naming convention (yourView_snap for snapshot view): this is a convention, and it should reflect:

• your login
• the name of the stream

More details in this other SO answer.

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Also note that an "integration view" is not always made for a "dynamic view": if you make some "integration test" involving some compilation, a snapshot view may be more adapted.