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Overview

TIBCO Designer allows multiple developers to work on the same project. Developers can use file sharing/locking or a revision control system to ensure that the same resource is not changed by two developers at the same time.

If you wish to use file sharing/locking or a revision control system, you must use a multi-file project. Different users can then add resources to the project and lock the parts of the project they are working on. Note that changes from User A don't show up for User B until User B syncs.

TIBCO Designer creates a file that can be shared and locked for each top-level resource, such as an adapter configuration or a process definition. It does not create a file for each resource. As a result, for example, you can lock an adapter configuration but cannot lock individual adapter services. TIBCO Designer also creates folders for folders you create in your project. You can lock each folder as needed.

The following revision control options are available:

•	File Sharing—Allows you to place the project in a central location, then lock and unlock resources as needed. See File Sharing.

•	Microsoft Visual SourceSafe—Allows multiple users to take advantage of the Visual SourceSafe features. See Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.

•	Perforce—Allows multiple users to take advantage of the Perforce software revision control system. See Perforce Fast Software Configuration Management System.

•	XML Canon—Allows multiple users to take advantage TIBCO XML Canon. See XML Canon.

•	Clearcase— See ClearCase.

•	CVS—See CVS.

•	PVCS—See PVCS Version Manager.

•	Scriptable RCS Adapter. See Scriptable RCS Adapter.

You interact with the revision control system directly from TIBCO Designer. You can also check who owns the lock for each locked resource using TIBCO Designer.

TIBCO Designer may not always have all of the information necessary to distinguish some situations correctly. For example, TIBCO Designer sometimes is unable to distinguish a deleted file from the revision control system (RCS) that should be deleted in your personal copy of the project from a file you added to your copy of the project and want to add to the RCS. In such cases, use the RCS client to fix these situations.

Icons Used by RCS Projects

To illustrate the state of the resource in a project under revision control, TIBCO Designer uses icons on top of each resource in the project panel.

 

	A lock icon indicates that the resource was checked into the revision control system. Other users may be making changes. You need to check out the resource to safely make changes.
	A yellow square icon indicates that the RCS does not know about this resource or its state. If the resource is new, you have to add it to the RCS. If it has been checked in before, it has to be checked in again.
	A red square indicates, on systems that support that functionality, that another user has locked the resource. Note that is functionality is not supported for all RC systems.

If no special icon is displayed, the resource has been checked out and is in the same state as the corresponding RCS resource.

Deleting RCS Projects

You delete a project that uses a revision control system as follows:

1.	In the Startup panel, click the Delete project button (just as for other projects).

2.	In the Delete Project dialog that appears, supply the information about the project.

−	For projects that use File Sharing, use either the None or File Sharing Revision Control System and any user name, supply the project location.

−	For Visual SourceSafe and Perforce you must make sure that the project listed in the Project Directory field corresponds to the project checked into RCS.

3.

Click OK.

The project is deleted. For Visual SourceSafe and Perforce, it is deleted in both the local and the check-in location.

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