# Configuration Management

## How to Create a Baseline

| ### What to do:
| In order to work through this example you must have completed the example Set up a CM Project.
| A baseline is exclusively used to introduce a new product and record the original configuration as is planned.
| Select Start > Configuration Management > Configuration Control > Baselines. The Baseline mask is opened.
| To change to insert mode click .
| Click in the Project Number field. The Projects list is opened.
| Search for the CM project Project-01 and select it from the Projects list.
| Enter Baseline-01 in the Baseline Number field and Baseline for Ball Pen Deluxe in the Baseline Title field.
| Click in the BL Type field and select PHYSICAL from the selection menu.
| To save the entry click .
| The following result will be displayed in the message window.
| Please note that when creating a baseline a default work set is automatically created as well. The work set is displayed in the Sets tab of the Baseline mask as follows:
| The baseline contains all approved/released items and documents representing the configuration for a set of products (models + units) at a specific point in time.