User Guide - Mks.com

Freezing
Members
Controlling Members
:member appears in the Revision field indicating the member revision
will be demoted.
3 Select a new state from the Demote to State list, for example,
Development.
4 To accept the new state, click OK (for multiple members, click OK to
All).
The member is demoted.
When your development team has largely finished a portion of a project
and some project members are in a stable state, you can freeze individual
members within a project or sandbox.
Freezing a member places it in a state that prevents changes from being
made to the member information that resides in the project file. For
example, you cannot update the member revision or change the attributes
of a frozen member. Freezing is the opposite of thawing a member.
Freezing restricts member information from being updated, preventing
these members from being changed by accident. However, development
work can still continue in the member file itself. For example, if new
revisions are checked into the member’s archive, Source Integrity does not
update the project’s member revision.
Freezing is useful for facilitating:
project checkpointing
member promotion
software distribution
Freezing prevents changes to member information in the project, but does
not affect the member file itself. Revisions can still be checked out,
modified, and checked in, but none of the changes are included as part of
the member information in the project.
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