How to permanently change an UCM activity name?

Question

I wanted to re-name my activity name from cleartool command-line using the commands

$ cleartool lsact
2016-04-14T17:10:17+05:30  foo_eg1  adam  "foo_eg1"

$ cleartool rename activity:foo_eg1@/vobs/fw-ucm activity:bar_eg1@/vobs/fw-ucm
Renamed activity from "foo_eg1" to "bar_eg1".

When I check for my activity name again:-   

$ cleartool lsact
2016-04-14T17:10:17+05:30 bar_eg1   adam "foo_eg1"

I can see the older activity name still pointed here and from the below command too.

$ ccase showact
..
title: foo_eg1
..

Why is the older activity name still referenced here? Is there a way I can force change the name? What other pitfalls should I be aware of when the names are different this way?

Answer 1

You can check "Change the name of an activity from GUI or CLI":

Every activity has a Headline and an ID.

• The Headline is the visible description (or name) you see when performing a checkout or checkin of a file within a UCM view,
• whereas the ID is an internal field that holds the name of the object in the VOB database.

These can be identical, but that is not required.

cleartool chactivity -headline <new_headline> activity-id

What you did was changing the ID, not the activity headline.