Same storage directory for both views in Clearcase View Creation Wizard?

Question

I'm in ClearCase Project Explorer and I'm trying to create a view. I right click on a project and choose create view. I tick both the Create a development view and the Create and integration view checkboxes and choose Snapshot for both. I click next and then put c:\MyDev for the root of the development view and c:\MyInt for the root of the integration view. When I click on next I see:

You've specified the same storage directory for both views. You'll need to change one of them.

Huh?

Answer 1

The error message should look like:

While the GUI might have evolved, double-check the advanced option when creating the views (as seen in the technote "Create a snapshot view from Windows").

If you don't have declared a view server location, you would need to specify a common shared path, For ClearCase to store view1.vws and view2.vws (the view storage folders).
See here for the nature of the view storage (The view storage directory tracks information about what files are loaded and checked out within the view).

This thread mentions:

When you join a project, two views are created:

1. A view attached to your new development stream and
2. an integration view attached to the project integration stream.

The new development view will get created every time.
The integration view will get created if one does not already exist for the user (if one already exists, it can be reused).

It is likely that the user is either specifying the same name for both views or is specifying the same view storage directory (e.g. view-name.vws) for both views.
There is nothing wrong with both view storage directories (e.g. dev-view.vws and int-view.vws) to exist in the same parent directory, just as long as the directory names are unique.

The OP Eric adds in the comments:

I believe that there was an invalid path on one of the advance settings pages.