Show Label Menus

The following menus and menu items appear in the Show Labels dialog.

Label

Delete

The Delete command allows you to delete a selected label. You will be prompted to confirm the label deletion. Once confirmed, the label is removed from the repository.

This command is only available on labels that were created at the same file or folder the Show Labels command was invoked on.

Rename

The Rename command allows you to rename a label. The “rename” must maintain label “uniqueness” for all items in the label

This command is only available on labels that were created at the same file or folder the Show Labels command was invoked on.

Promotion

The command brings up the Label Promotion dialog, which allows you to add or delete files to or from the label, and also allows you to change the version numbers of files associated with the label.

This command is only available on labels that were created at the same file or folder the Show Labels command was invoked on.

Close

View

Refresh

The Refresh command allows you to re-query the label to get updated results.

Action

Diff

Invokes the diff command on the item listed in the menu item that is associated with the selected label.

View

Views the item listed in the menu item that is associated with the selected label. For a folder, this invokes a window that allows you to see the tree structure of the folder at the time it was labeled.

Get

Gets the item listed in the menu item that is associated with the selected label.

A working folder is required to Get a label to the local disk. The Get dialog is displayed when getting the item, and you can choose to get the item to a different folder from that dialog.

If the folder the label is retrieved to is a working folder, it will update the state files to reflect the versions of the label, and will honor the Get options that apply to history Gets, for issues like overwriting existing files, timestamps, etc.

Share

Shares the item listed in the menu item that is associated with the selected label at the version associated with label. This works same way as if it were shared from history, in that it shares the item, then pins it to the version it was shared from.

You can only share an item that is part of a label that has not been promoted.

Branch

Branches the item listed in the menu item that is associated with the selected label. This works same way as if it were branched from history at the version associated with the label.

You can only branch an item that is part of a label that has not been promoted.

Pin/Unpin

Pinning / Unpinning an item associated with the selected label will operate as if the main object is pinned or unpinned using the label’s version.

You can only pin or unpin an item that is part of a label that has not been promoted

Edit Comment

Invokes a dialog that allows you to change the text of the comment is associated with the selected label.