Question

What is the difference between these two RTC source control icons ? Is it identifying which workspace is loaded by which component ? Is there a reference that explains each of the RTC source control icons ?

Answer 1

Each represents a component (RTC component, which has the same semantic than a ClearCase UCM component: a coherent set of files, branched or labelled as a whole unit).

• the blue one represents a component loaded in a local workspace (or sandbox)
• the white one represents a component not loaded (only declared in a repository workspace)

Note that you would always see:

• a blue one in the “Component” section of a Project Area, but that just designate the component itself, not its loaded or not-loaded state.
• a white one in the components listed on a Stream section of a project area: components declared on a Stream aren’t loaded or not (it makes no sense in that context)
• a blue one in the Stream displayed in a flow diagram (see last illustration bellow). Again it doesn’t mean that component is loaded or not, it just means the code color convention isn’t very coherent outside of repository workspace…

Within a repository workspace, the meaning is clear: blue equals “loaded”, white equals “not loaded” (in a sandbox).

You can use the flow diagram to see who has loaded what (see article “Easing into Jazz Source Control“):