Initiating a Transfer
Transfer Items
Although transfers can be initiated on object versions, components and change requests, it is only object versions that are ever actually moved or copied.
A transfer on a component is used to register that component as an object version. As such, a component transfer can only ever be a 'Register' type transfer. Furthermore, the from location and to location of a component transfer must match.
Likewise, change requests do not exist at locations and therefore cannot be transferred around the VC/m environment. A transfer that is initiated on a change request moves or copies the object versions that it contains. Object versions within change requests may exist at different locations from each other. If this is the case, not all object versions will be able to be transferred along the specified route and VC/m will record which objects were transferred successfully and which were skipped.
In order for a transfer to complete successfully, it must conform to a valid transfer route. For more information, see the article on Transfer Routes.
Initiating the Transfer
1. Navigate to the item you wish to transfer.
2. Click on your item and
- EITHER Drag and drop it onto the location in the folders panel that you wish to transfer it to
- OR Right-click on it and select from the type of transfer you want to initiate from the Transfer sub-menu. (These will differ depending on what the item is and where it exists.)
- OR From the menu bar, choose Transfer and select the type of transfer you want to initiate from the sub-menu. (These will differ depending on what the item is and where it exists.)
The transfer dialog should appear. Here, you can fill specify the details of the transfer.
See Also: Transfers, The Transfer Dialog, Transfer Routes, Object Versions, Components, Change Requests