Creating shelves

Shelves are temporary containers on the Surround SCM Server where you can store new and modified files before adding or checking them in to Surround SCM.

When you create a shelf, you are the only user who can add files to it by default. You can change the owner after the shelf is created. See Editing shelves.

You can also create shelves when shelving files in the Source Tree window and the Working Directory Differences dialog box. See Shelving files and Viewing differences between repositories and working directories.

1. Choose View > Shelves.

The Shelves window opens.

2. Click Create Shelf.

The Create Shelf dialog box opens.

3. Enter a Shelf name and Description.

4. Select Enable sharing to allow other users to view and unshelve files from the shelf.

• All users shares the shelf with all users.
• Selected users shares the shelf with only the selected users.

5. Click OK.

The shelf is added. You can now add files to it. See Adding files to existing shelves.