Before assigning a dynamic view to a drive (Windows)

On a Windows system, if your makefiles or other files require absolute paths, assign your view to a drive. When you use a wizard to create a view, you have the option to assign the dynamic view to a drive. If you want to change a drive assignment, or if you want to assign a drive to a team member's view, you can create or modify a drive assignment while adding a view shortcut to HCL VersionVault Windows Explorer.

In addition, you can create or modify drive assignments from Windows® Explorer. Any changes that you make to drive assignments outside VersionVault Windows Explorer invalidate the view shortcuts in VersionVault Windows Explorer.

Path differences

In Windows Explorer, you can access from the dynamic-views drive (by default, drive M) any dynamic view that is started on your computer. However, when you access a view from the dynamic-views drive, its path includes one more component than when you access a view from an assigned drive.

For example, both of the following paths are available to an element in the pat_v1.4_cropcircle dynamic view that is assigned to drive H:

H:\design\foo.c
M:\pat_v1.4_cropcircle\design\foo.c