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| <H1>Picking up pending changes</H1> |
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| <p>Whenever the Eclipse platform is started it detects and notes any changes that |
| have been made to the installed base of files such as the appearance (or disappearance) |
| of feature and plug-in versions. New or updated features are not automatically |
| configured for an existing workspace; rather, you are told on start up that |
| there are updates and given the opportunity to configure them. If you accept them, |
| the new and updated feature versions become a part of the feature and plug-in |
| configuration used for that workspace. If not accepted, the new and updated |
| feature versions remain dormant (disabled) for that workspace, but available |
| to be picked up at a later time. |
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| <p>To pick up pending changes: |
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| <li>When new changes are detected, Configuration Changes page will open on |
| startup. Alternatively, click <b>Help > Software Updates > Pending |
| Changes...</b>. |
| The Configuration Changes page opens showing a list of detected changes.</li> |
| <li>Select and expand detected change items to see the associated feature |
| versions. You can accept the entire change items, or select individual |
| features. Individual selection may be necessary in case when some of the new |
| features have errors.</li> |
| <li>Check items that are to be included in the configuration. Unchecked items |
| are ignored (but remain pending).</li> |
| <li>Click <b>Finish</b> to update the configuration, or <b>Cancel</b> to |
| retain the current configuration (pending changes remain pending). Note that |
| if a pending item has been partially selected (not all the features), |
| pressing <b>Finish</b> will mark the item processed and it will be removed |
| from the list of pending changes.</li> |
| <li>Click <b>Yes</b> when asked to exit and restart the workbench for the |
| changes to take effect.</li> |
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| <P><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.gif" alt="Related concepts" width="159" height="27"><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-25.htm">Features</a> |
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| <P><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.gif" alt="Related tasks" width="159" height="27"><br> |
| <a href="tasks-36.htm">Updating features with the update manager</a><br> |
| <a href="tasks-38.htm">Restoring a saved configuration</a> |
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