OWB Project Management, Versioning

Hi,
We're using version 9.2.0.3.0 version of OWB. Most of our work has been in the development stage, but we're ready to start moving to Integration, Acceptance and eventually Production.
I've read a lot of OTN and Metalink forum messages on how people are doing this. I'd like to know what it the best way to move these changes to the different levels. Some people mentionned creating different repositories, others have mentionned different projects (All within the same repository), and there is also mention of snapshots.
The snapshot concept is nice, but would incur too much work around if a restore is needed. From a developer point of view, if a restore is needed, then afterward who know what's been restored, what's current,etc...especially if we have about 5-6 developers working in OWB.
I'm kinda leaning towards having separate repositories, so the developers can see the mappings in each level at any time. Having different projects wouls also be feasible.
As a DBA, once we get to production, then I agree that if the code is deployed in a file that I would only have to run, then this would make our lives easier.
I'd like to hear what people (and Oracle) have to say on the subject.
Thanks,
Guy LaBelle
DBA
Atlantic BlueCross Care

There can be several possible solutions of this problem. One would be the snapshots (project versions stored in the database). Today you can create snapshots at different project phases and the snapshot utility will let you see the differences between the various versions in a graphical interface (version reporting)
The problem with snapshots (as you correctly state) might be that you have to restore the versions to work with them, which might be cumbersome if the developers need to have instantaneous access to multiple versions.
Therefore, in your case I would suggest the following:
- create two separate repositories (with two separate run-time environments), one for development, one for production.
- do all the design, development and testing in the development environment. You can have different projects containing different versions of the project in the development repository. This will allow the users almost simultaneous access to multiple versions (what you don't heve here and is present in snapshots are version reporting - project diffs. the users will have to manually compare the versions. If project diffs are more important than fast access to multiple versions, than use snapshots instead of multiple projects).
- Once the design is consolidated and you are ready to go into production, export the project into an mdl file and import it into the production repository. Deploy and run the production environment.
- Now you have two almost identical systems running side by side. The development system also has all the earlier project versions, while the production only has the latest version. If a problem is detected in the production, test and fix in the development and then move the fix into production (mdl export-import + deploy).
Hope this helps.
Regards:
Igor

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OWB Change Management/Version Control Best Practice

Hi
I am about to start developing a data warehouse using OWB 10g R2, and I've been doing quite a lot of research into the various deployment/change management/version control techniques that can be used, but am still unsure which is the best to use.
We will have 2-3 developers working on the project, and will be deploying from Development, to Test, to Production (each will have a separate repository). We want to be able to easily identify changes made between 1 release and the next to have a greater degree of control and awareness of what goes into each release. We also wish to use a source control system to track changes (we'll probably use SVN, but I don't think that the actual SCS tool makes a big difference to our decision at this point).
The options available (that I'm aware of), are:
1. Full MDL export/import.
2. Snapshot MDL export/import.
3. Manual coding of everything using OMB Plus.
I am loath to use the full MDL export/import functionality since it will be difficult, if not impossible, to identify easily the changes made between 1 release and the next.
The snapshot MDL export/import functionality is a little better at comparing releases, but it's still difficult to see exactly what has changed between 1 version and the next - particularly when a change to a transformation has been made. It also doesn't cope that well with tracking individually made changes to different components of the model.
The manual coding using OMB Plus seems like the best option at the moment, though I keep thinking "What's the point of using a GUI tool, if I'm just going to code everything in scripts anyway?".
I know that you can create OMB Plus code generation scripts to create your 'creation' scripts, but the code generation of the Alteration scripts seems that it would be more complicated than just writing the Alteration scripts manually.
Any thoughts anyone out there has would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Liffey

Well, you can also do per-object MDL exports and then manage those in your version control system. With a proper directory structure it would be fairly simple to code an OMB+ Script that scans a release directory tree and imports the objects one by one. I have done this before, although if you are using OWB as the primary metadata location for database objects then you have to come up with some way to manage object dependency order issues.
The nice thing about this sort of system is that a patch can be easily shipped with only those objects that need to be updated.
And if you force developers to put object-level MDL into your version control system then your system should also have pretty reporting on what objects were changed for a release and why.
At my current job we do full exports of the project MDL and have a deployment script that drops the pre-existing deployed version of the project before importing and deploying the new version, which also works quite well - although as you note the tracking of what has changed in a release then needs to be carefully managed elsewhere. But we don't deploy any of our physical database objects through OWB. Those are deployed from Designer, and our patch script applies all physical changes first before we replace the mappings from the OWB project. We don't even bother synching the project metadata for tables / views / etc. at deployment. If the OWB project's metadata for database objects is not in sync with Designer, then we wind up with deployment errors. But on the whole it works pretty well.

Using Project Manager to export a trimmed SD IMX-50 sequence, no reduction in file size is achieved.

Attempting to export a trimmed Project Managed version of a network promo containing NTSC/SD IMX-50 footage. The source file is 9 GB raw, the resulting trimmed 30-second spot should be under a gig, but Project Manager won't reduce/trim the source.

Are you using the "Create New Trimmed Project" option in a version of Premiere Pro that is CC 2014 (8.0) or earlier? If so, the "Create New Trimmed Project" is limited in the formats that it supports/trims. All MPEG formats will be copied in their entirety. i.e.: not trimmed.
Starting with Premiere Pro CC 2014.1 (8.1), Consolidate and Transcode was added, which may suit your needs. More information can be found at:
Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Copy, transcode, or archive projects
Consolidate and transcode to work with mixed video formats | Adobe Premiere Pro CC tutorials

P3 Project Manager Crashing with EBDClient error, when refreshing (F5)

My company has 3 sql databases for Prima on a server; 2 are approximately 1.5GB, and the third is just over 2GB
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P3 Project Manager version 5 (no service packs installed, but have tried sp1-3 on my machine with the same error)
oracle client 9.2 with tnsnames pointing to the sql server with the prima databases
each machine has 2GB memory with a 3-4GB pagefile
I do not have issues refreshing the other smaller databases.
both the client and server do not take a significant hit on resources while refreshing.
both the server and client are not reporting any errors under event viewer.
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type: EDBClient
Event code: IMFTO-3501-8
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app title: primavera project management
exe: pm.exe
object: tmainmenu
context:
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     5. tfrmmain.actProjectsActivitiesExecute
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Evironment (tab)
Components
=============
ORI: ORI Win32 #
ORI/DB: PMDB,0500.0024.0001.0002
IMG: IMG win32 #1000
SYS INFO
=============
username: "user's name" Hostname: "their computer name"
OS version:     winNT 5.1, build 2600, SP3

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Project Manager Quirkiness

I was given a drive with a project that had been saved to it with Project Manager. On my system, I imported the sequence from this drive as all the original media files are on a NAS AND local Raid attached to my edit box. If I keep the Drive with the Project Manager version of the project mounted, all the files can be found or relinked from the Project Manager drive. If I try to relink with this drive unmounted, the relink box is grayed out and I'm not given the chance to relink to the original files on my Raid or NAS. What am I doing wrong or what do I not understand? I would assume that if Premeire can't find links to files in a sequence, it should allow you to look anywhere to relink them?

Hi Ron,
Welcome to the Adobe forums.
Premiere Pro Project Manager can help consolidating the files associated with a project. you can create a version of your project that references only the material used in your sequences. Also, you can specify which sequences to include and saved under a unique name in the standard Premiere Pro project file format. The Project Manager copies only portions of source footage used in sequences. If one or more sub clips share frames with another sub clip, the Project Manager creates a footage file that contains only those shared frames. So, the folder that Project Manager creates is the complete project which has all the references of the files used in the sequence in the same folder and hence when you disconnect the drive and try to re link them from the original media it does not gives you that option.
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Vinay

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which one is the latest version from Primavera in the
family of Project management tools?

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(still not enough changes to fix its flaws), but there
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A 2013 Version of MS PS 2010 PWA Schedule or Project Management Comparison Chart?

Is there a 2013 version of the Microsoft Project Server 2010 PWA Schedule or Project Management Comparison Chart that is available at
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•Will they be able to set or freeze baselines?
•What is their ability to assign cost resources or material resources to tasks?
•Etc.

Hello,
You can find the Project Professional 2013 vs. Project Online / PWA comparison at
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They can set baseline and assign cost or material resources in PWA
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Thank you,
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Project Management Wishlist (hoping for software or online solutions)

hi all.
i've converted the office to mac over the last two plus years and need to put a second level of organization to bed.
would anyone mind helping me find other websites and/or suggestions on how to get this finalized? apologies for the length and intricacy of the post but THANKS for any help on this! even just one good lead or recommendation (say for FileMaker or one of the Devon tools could help me get moving forward with it and not have to backtrack).
i work on PROJECTS that seem to need various kinds of data. some notetaking, imagery, url's. pages documents, pages documents printed to pdf, some pdfs that others created, spreadsheets, various creative files such as CAD, photoshop, indesign etecetera - and of course email and text and phone conversations. i would really ideally love to pull all this together but of course i know this is not realistic.
i also really need to communicate some of this information with clients and have them communicate back to me, right now this is a terrible mess and extremely unproductive with widely dispersed and duplicated information (at a bare minimum).
i have finally customized my images in Aperture but still need to organize my pdf's and my videos. i also find Spotlight to be rather unhelpful for some items and in reading up on Devon, one of their tools has a /graphic/ search display that somehow shows linked items and whether they have been "read" or not. this kind of VISUAL ORGANIZATION would be absolutely fantastic [http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonagent/overview.html]. i should also add that what i /don't/ want to do is to have to catalog my project file by file and simply DRAGGING and DROPPING files to create a link if my ideal organizational method. tagging items with the GTD tools that i have tested is a non-starter for me and i actually don't even use tags in my Aperture database. i just drag and drop them to an appropriate Project.
currently an example workflow for my Aperture database is that i POST these images to flickr to let a client see what kind of imagery i am using in their project (but they cannot upload /their/ imagery). nevertheless, this is very convenient because i can simply create an ALBUM in Aperture and drop the (pre-organized) imagery in there and post it to flickr from within the Aperture UI. this is really great but getting this link to a client is a bit of a pain because even flickr Pro uses some silly thing where you have to decide whether the recipient is a "friend" or "family" and ostensibly anyone that gets determined as one or the other can see all the other images in this category. it would be a whole lot better if i could just create an Album for a particular client. of course it would be great to
in any event -
in an ideal world (off the top of my head i would like) the ability to create a "Project" in my computer which organizes the following and /also/ allows me to post this to a place where Clients can have a LOGIN and PASSWORD that allows them to both view and UPLOAD information.
1. bookmarks
2. pdfs
3. spreadsheets
4. contact list
5. images
6. other files
7. a lot that i am forgetting to include here.
it would also be great to be able to organize PHONE CALLS and TEXTS and EMAILS on my computer so that i can have a record of communication with and FOR this client.
i would also like to get most or much of this to my iPhone if at all possible!
Devon for project organization and possibly other needs [http://www.devontechnologies.com]
FileMaker for project organization [http://www.filemaker.com]
Campfire for project management [http://campfirenow.com]
Papers for academic research [http://www.papersapp.com/papers/]
Highrise for contact and prospect management [http://highrisehq.com]
Project Wizard for critical path management [http://www.projectwizards.net/en/merlin/]
Diigo for online bookmarking [https://www.diigo.com]
what i use now:
Notational Velocity (oh so awesome) iphone compatible [http://notational.net]
Reminders (nice for the location tools but i have not maxed out my use of this tool)
Contacts (for personal contacts and syncs usually well with my laptop and desktop and iphone. however, managing email addresses in here is a nightmare for a small business)
Cardscan (for business card contacts. resides currently only on the Mac Pro and i am not sure how to get Cardscan to talk to my other devices)
Mac Mail (meh)
Sparrow (cool and quick but somewhat feature light)
iPhone (yes-sir-eee bob)
Safari (good at what it does)
1Password (dig the syning across devices)
Transmit (nice FTP tool)
i also work on windows where i do quickbooks and CAD so i am open to software suggestions for windows if there is nothing for the mac (though i suspect i can do much of the above on the mac, even if i cannot corral all of it together).
THANKS FOR READING and thanks for any constructive input!

Ipolucci,
I am a teacher and so I do not have your needs to really understand your requests.
That said, I would reccomend you FileMaker Pro and Journler ( currently at version 1.1.62, running by Mac OS X 10.3.9 , the version I have and already in versio 2.0.1 for those who have 10.4).
The first one is a relational commercial DB of an Apple subsidiary, with several template solutions ( probably one will fill your needs ) and the second one is a freeware, that has integration with Mail, Adress Book, Blogs, Photos, Audio recordings, iTunes and more.
Just in case does not come anyone else with the complete solution, you should consider a free trial of FileMaker Pro (just released the version 8.5) and take a look at Journler.
Both at <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/>
Regards,
Jorge Lucas (the guy from Rio Grande do Sul)

Start Of Ramp-Up for SAP Portfolio and Project Management 5.0

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Thanks very much for taking the time to post the info Florian. I will update this thread as well if I run into any new information.
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Project management tools

hello all.
im curious as to what other people are currently using for
project management, wire framing, versioning, etc in their
development environment. we are a coldfusion mx7 shop w/ ms sql.
our applications adhere to the MVC structure and modeled using
fusebox 5.0.
my company is currently looking for solutions available for:
wireframe flip / uml software;
bug tracking / ticketing software;
file versioning;
time tracking management;
thanks much!
aaron

For versioning you cannot do better than Subversion(svn) it
is just a complete God send and free to boot, plus if you use
Eclipse (if not why not) then there is a Subclipse plugin which
makes life easy too.
HTH

Free Project Management Software for Mac or windows!

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Does anyone know of a good project management software that does more than what Microsoft project does and is freely available? I mean one that has a local application but also can update updates to the web side of the software? I saw sharedPlan which is really good so far but its not freely available. It runs on Mac and Windows but really looking for a windows version as all my team members only use windows.
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You might want to check out Wikipedia page and look for open source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparisonof_project_managementsoftware
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http://www.ganttproject.biz/
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Rob.

RSC Files Not Appearing in RH Project Manager

My three-writer group has experienced a number of RoboHelp/RoboSource Control problems in the last week.
First this is our setup:
1. Two writers with 64-bit Windows 7, and one with 32-bit Win 7. We all have the latest patches and updates.
2. Our RSC database is on a remote machine that has 32-bit Win XP.
After a time where our group successfully updated our project, I was given a new laptop with Win 7 (I had previously had a 32-bit Win XP desktop), we have now encountered the following problems:
1. No one can open a RH project from version control. We go through all steps and when we open the XPJ icon it finally crashes after taskbar status messages of something like "Querying version control." It thus crashes at one of the final steps in opening a project from the database.
2. Even on our remote machine, I cannot open a RH project from version control.
3. For some unknown period of time, it appears that the three of us have not had our changes uploading to the database because nobody's desktop RH project looks the same. Out of the three of us, I have many--but not all--of my changes up at RSC. I have no idea where my colleagues' changes went.
4. An unspecified number of files are listed in RSC as well in the File Status pod in RH but they are NOT appearing in the Project Manager pod. If I try to move one image file with the same name into a folder where the original should be, RH displays an error message saying that it already exists there--even though I cannot see it in Project Manager nor interface with it.
I have used RH for 11 years but RSC for just 1-2. I have never seen behavior like this before and it's really brought our entire OLH efforts to a halt. Can anyone tell me what I might do to restore, if not the database, a version of the XPJ that has as many of our changes that DID make it to RSC?
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Chris
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I have amended the title of the thread for the simple reason that I don't do source control. I guess you've just added another reason why.
Sorry but I cannot help you on this one.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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Robo 8 Topic files not displaying in project manager

I am working on a project upgrade and have made new topics in Robo 8 project. When I view the topic files for a particular folder in the Project Manager view only 1/2 of my topics are displayed.. When I look in the folder (behind the scenes), all my topics are there, just not displayed in the Project Manager. What do I need to do? Thanks!.

Peter,
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I have a project that I tested with RH 8.0.2.208 using the following steps/results.
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Copied the project.
Opened the copy using *.xpj.
Broken links exist.
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Copied the project again.
Deleted *.cpd.
Open the new copy using *.xpj.
Broken links exist.
Generated (HTML) primary output.
Checked one broken link topic (same as above). Topic content exists, but the screen captures in the topic do not. A red x appears in place of the screen captures.
I do not know how to uninstall only the patch. I looked at Add or Remove programs, and I do not see a stand alone entry for the patch.
To uninstall the patch, do I have to completely uninstall RH 8.0.2 and reinstall the older version fresh? That seems like a major bother. An uninstall and fresh install of the earlier version will likely eliminate some styles and other settings that I have saved.
Is there a way to uninstall just the patch?
As an alternative to uninstalling 8.0.2, I opened a fresh copy of the project (last modified 10-5-2009) on a machine with RH 8.0.203 installed, i.e., a machine without the patches installed.
There were no problem with the project, i.e., no broken links.

Project Management Roadblock with mac

I love my mac! I always have loved my macs. I mainly used my macs for personal which is mostly multimedia world.
For the past 6 months I have kicked my work provided Dell to the curb and am using my mac for everything business related with some snags (most are overcome with work arounds).
After using my mac in the business world I have come to the conclusion Apple needs to come out with an Office of there own.
Sure, the skimpy Microsoft Office is nice (slow) but nice for word, excel and powerpoint but what about the other pieces of Microsoft Office that are not included like Visio and Project. These are key applications that I have not found a very good substitute.
I have tried replacing Project with:
OmniPlan 1.1
ConceptDraw Project 3
FastTrack Project 9
Project X
Merlin 2
Daylite3
All of which are nice for basic project management but some are clumsy, some are nice but not advanced enough.
My current project is to migrate the networks at branches all across the world.
I am given the DayOne date for each branch. DayOne is defined as the day the customers/users come into the office and are using the new network for the very first time. So, its the end date of each milestone.
So working backwards from DayOne (always a Monday)
Task1: 3days prior to DayOne, Begin Migration (Task Length: Friday at 6pm there local time until 5am Monday there local time at the latest)
Task2: 5days prior to DayOne, Send out a FINAL cadence (Task Length: 30minutes and always on a Wednesday at 4pm eastern time)
Task3: 7days prior to DayOne, Verification that everything is set (Task Details: 1hour and always on a Monday at 1pm-2pm eastern time)
Task4: 17days prior to DayOne, Requests are submitted (Task Details: Request/Change Controls are submitted and always on a Friday at 9am est for 1hour)
Task5: 30days prior to Dayone, Submit cadenance is sent to all teams (Task Details: Helps everyone get on same page, done at 3pm est for 30min on Mondays)
Task6: 30days prior to Dayone, Red Team Review of cadenance (Task Details: Review cadenance with all teams, North America version done at 11am every Monday 30+days prior to dayone, Europe version done 30+ days prior to dayone on Thursdays at 8am est)
Task7: 60+days prior to Dayone, Draft Cadenance is emailed (Task Details: Draft cadenance is sent out every Tuesday 60+days out from dayone at 3pm est for 2hours)
A TRUE Project Management software I should be able to create the tasks above and change the DayOne date (as I received these changes) and all Tasks should shift accordingly and they do not (without any limitation). There should also be the possibility to turn on/off the today date restriction (in the case I would like to track tasks that happened in the past).
I would love to see Apple create an Office suite that does Office right. No limits... shoot for Pluto.

Hi Countrymac,
A couple of suggestions:
For Project Management, take a look at the package iTaskX - at first glance it looks promising - it includes effective task linking like end-to-start, start-to-start etc., and it seems intuitive (at least at my first glimpse). A no-cost trial version (no file saving or printing) is available for downloading at:
http://shareit.com/product.html?cart=1&productid=300022429&affiliateid=200003270
For an Office suite try NeoOffice, the (shareware) open source product adapted especially for the Mac from the also open source "Open Office". Download and further info is available at:
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/download.php#requirements
Hope that helps! Cheers

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