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Chapter 3 Working with a Revision Control System : Microsoft Visual SourceSafe

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
This section first discusses prerequisites and looks at a usage scenario, then includes reference documentation to the Version Control dialog in the following sections:
Visual SourceSafe Setup
To set up your system to work in conjunction with the TIBCO Designer Visual SourceSafe component, follow these steps:
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Only the Client Programs component is necessary on the machine where TIBCO Designer runs.
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To make the Visual SourceSafe database available, set the ssdir environment variable to the location of the Visual SourceSafe database. The ReadMess.htm file included with your client explains how to do this on the command line:
 
   set ssdir=\\server\share\vss
Where \\server\share\vss is the folder where the Srcsafe.ini file in the VSS database is located.
You can also set this variable permanently using the control panel.
Using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
Step 1: User A Starts TIBCO Designer and Creates a VSS Project
To create a VSS project, User A follows these steps:
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Project Directory—Location of the project on the local drive.
Multi-User System—Visual SourceSafe
User Name—Name of the current user. The user must have been granted access to VSS during the VSS client installation. Ask your VSS administrator.
Password—Password for the current user, as specified during the VSS client installation. Ask your VSS administrator.
VSS Command—Click Browse to point to the SS.EXE executable on your machine. Note that you must use SS.EXE, which is the command-line executable for VSS that is used by TIBCO Designer.
VSS Project Name—Name of the project in the VSS database. Include the root directory and other directories, as in the example below.
Figure 18 Save Project Options for Microsoft VSS
Step 2: User A Makes Changes to Project and Checks In the Project
User A can now make changes to the project and check them in as follows:
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User A saves the project, then chooses Multi-User > Add Resource to RCS.
If a resource has never been added to RCS, you must add. If you make additional changes, you check in the resource.
After User A has supplied a label for this version, the check-in console, which shows the check-in information, is displayed.
Step 3: User B Checks Out Resources and Makes Changes
After User A has checked the whole project into VSS for the first time, each resource can be checked out by each user that has access to VSS.
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User B chooses Multi-User > Project > Synchronize Project to make sure all resources are loaded.
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User B selects a resource to be checked out in the project tree, then chooses Check Out Resource from the right-button menu of the resource.
Figure 19 Check Out Resource
 
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User B can now make changes to the checked-out resource. After all changes have been made, User B can choose Multi-User > Check In Changes. If User B adds new resource, each resource must first be added to the RCS using the Add Resource to RCS menu.

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