Create a copy of a project

To prevent documents that are in production from breaking, KCM Designer explicitly forbids changes to the Data Backbone or a Library that would cause existing documents to fail. It is not possible to remove a Field Set from a Data Backbone after an [accepted] revision is created for the Data Backbone. It is not possible to remove a FORMAT function from a Library.

This restriction may cause problems when you develop documents for a new version of the business application, as the data in that application may also change.

In this case, create a copy of the project for the new version of the application. This copy only contains the revisions that were [draft] in the source project, and they will be [in development] in the new project. Changesets are not part of a copy of the project. This allows you to change Libraries and the Data Backbone without putting at risk the documents that are in production.

To create such a copy, in the tree view, click the project and then click File > Restart Project on the menu.

The new project has the same name as the original, with [1] appended to it. You need to rename it to give it a meaningful name.