Can anyone point me to a nice online explanation of Baselines in Windchill/Intralink 10.0?
An online search yields the typical "Baselines are a fixed collection of objects", "A Baseline is itself a managed object", etc.
There seems to be info online and in documentation about how to CREATE a Baseline, but not much discussion on how a Baseline is USED in a practical sense.
My first impression is that a Baseline is merely a snapshot of the contents of a Product or Folder at a specific moment in time. I presume that Baselines are used to get back to a specific moment in time in case a tragic event should befall a top assembly or critical component.
But questions remain. Is a Baseline just a mega-backup of sorts? What are the consequences of restoring a Product to a Baseline created weeks/months ago? (Loss of all work accomplished since the Baseline was created?) In general, how are Baselines created/managed/used in the day-to-day real world?
Hence my quest for a practical explanation of Baselines in general. Not just how to create them, but how they are used. What to do, and what n-o-t to do.
Anyone know of an all-encompassing online explanation covering both an overview and the nuts-and-bolts?
TIA.
(Windchill-based Intralink 10.0 m030 with
