Project management + Source Control

we are using labview 8.5 and not well known source control in a team environment. I'm not sure if it is the souce control that I'm using or other searsons, but I had so much trouble using those combination. I want to know what others thought about project management and/or source control in general.
Thanks,
- Jimmy
- Jimmy

Hi!
   Actually, I've never merged, since I'm the only LabView guy on our development team
   I absolutely agree with the fact that SVN is a good tool, but I should confess that I didn't spend much time in evaluating many other tools (never tried MS tools), for this I rely on my colleagues' opinion.
   I can report that SVN is being used in a graphic studio for pictures versioning of course, they don't need to merge images There's virtually no limit in SVN use...
graziano

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We have a project in version control that we have been using forever, since 2003 or so and many versions of RH. Now that we have upgraded to 9, this project will open the first time in version control and work normally. Once you close the project and attempt to reopen from the starter screen, it opens just great, just not in version control. The files are still set to read only. I have done this several times and the only way i can work on my project in version control is to act like i am opening a project from scratch, then it needs to overwrite all of my local files with the server files. It would not be so bad but I am 3000 miles away from the server and 13 hops plus a slow firewall on the other end. While this has never been a problem in the past it is a big problem because it takes hours for all the files to download and overwrite my local files.
This only happens with RH9 and Version Control 3.1. RH8 works no problem. So, I don't know if this is a RH9 starter problem or a Source Control Problem. Maybe I will make a similar thread in the RH area. I'll wait to see if I get any useful hits from this one first.
It is very strange, I had RH9 open for several days because I was afraid to close the project for this reason and yesterday I published for the month so the heat is less right now but today, it opened with no source control. If I go to Source Control the only thing i can select is put project in source control. That is how it got into source control after converting to RH9.
We have another project that seems to open from version control normally but we can only save topics in HTML view. No useful answers to that topic after a week.
Got any ideas???
I have tried different folder names, different paths, etc.
Thanks,
dv

Ok, here is a wierd one, I used the add to version control icon in the menu bar, It already knew the path so I figured I'm the only one who has been editing these files for the past few days so I clicked add to version control. It added it. I closed and reopeded and still had the same files checked out. Closed, checked in all, then reopened and it is working in SourceControl. Strange that after opening from source control and closing that you need to reopen and tell it to put the project into source control. Obviously some flag is not getting set somewhere. This might help others having problems reopening source control files.
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I need steps to export a B2B project for source controlling it and deploying the code to higher environments.
Right now the coding is done in DEV , We want to push it to TEST.
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Activate project management in controlling area..
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I messed up & need your advice. I put my first RH project, "core", at the root level of my VSS project:
$
rh_projects
   core
Unfortunately, my "core" RH project is now a child project in a merged help system. I also put the "parent" project at the root level, so now it looks like this in VSS:
$
rh_projects
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     parent
... but my VSS folder structure really should reflect my real folder structure, so that other writers can use the same structure when they open the project.
So I want to change my VSS folder structure to this:
$
rh_projects
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So here's my question (finally!): what's the best way to move the core project in VSS?
* In RH, remove the core project from source control, then put it back under source control at the new folder level, OR
* In VSS, add the new "projects" folder structure and move the "core" folder underneath it, then open it in RH as a "new" project?
thanks,
Jenny

Either way should work.
Method 1 will ensure the source control path in the RH files points to the correct VSS location
Method 2 will keep your change history if this is important to you. However, it is trickier to do. Zip up a copy of your project just in case.
Method 2 details
If you use this method, you need to manually change the VSS path listed in the .xpj file.
Look for something similar to the following. It may be different depending on your versions of RH and VSS. The below is from RH6 and VSS2005. '[' represents and angle bracket.
[matchedpair]
           [name]vc::cookie[/name]
           [value]"$/Dev/Source/Documentation/MyProject", ZTZQBAAA[/value]
[/matchedpair]
You will need to change the [value] line: change the path beginning with $ to your project location.
I don't think you need to change the 8 character code after the comma, but I was never quite sure what it meant. If want to be safe or things don't work, create a temporary new project and add it to VSS at the same level as your project. Copy the bit in green from the temp project and paste it into your real one. Delete the temp project.
Also make sure you delete the .cpd file before opening the project as this sometimes remembers the old location.
HTH,
Amebr
Message was edited by: Amebr
Couldn't get colours to work so changed to words. Hopefully it's clear enough.

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DOe anyone know how to setup Project Builder to use CVS for source/version control or is there a good guide I can download?

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Hi, I'm using VS2012. I'm logged into VS online and can open the Team Explorer in VS2012. The frustrating thing is how do I add a new solution to source control? I click on the Solution Explorer, Right click on the solution, Select "Add
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The problem is i don't want to put this new solution under any of the 3 solutions currently in Source Control in VS Online. I want this to be a new solution/project to be saved in the source control form the root. If I click on the Advanced button,
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lands at VS online. I then type in the new team project name. Everything is good so far. I now returns to my VS on my local PC, I right click either the solution or the project in that solution, select "Add solution to Source Control".
The "Add Solution... " dialog then pops up. I selected newly created Team Project, leave everything else in default and select OK and now I get a different error message saying "Fail to create mapping, cannot map server path, $/TeamProject/projectname,
becuase it is not rooted beneath a team project.
How can I fix this and just get my source into the source control? Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you

Assuming you map to yoursite.visualsualstudio.com/defaultcollection you will need to create a team project to upload your stuff. If you are trying to save to $/ that is team project collection level and you can only add team projects at that point.
you can add a new team project with the below picture
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Copying projects in source control

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We've recently implemented RoboSource Control and I'm hoping someone can tell me how to copy a project that it is already under its control. With each version of our software we need to duplicate the previous version's projects so that we can use them as the basis of the current version.
I had been told that I could open a project from version control to a different folder, remove it from version control, and then add it back into version control to a different folder. This, in theory, should give a duplicate copy. However, the removing from version control bit deletes the original project from version control, not the copy. You then have add both projects back into version control to their respective folders, which is not desirable.
Is there an easier (or correct) way to do this?
Thanks
Jonathan

Thanks for that.
I found an article on Rick Stone's website and, after trying a few different method, it seems like the best way to copy a project. Here's what I did:
1. Open the project you want to copy in RoboHelp, and make sure you ‘get’ the latest set of files from RSC. Close the project.
2. In Windows Explorer, copy the local version of the RoboHelp project to a new folder.
3. Select all the files in the new folder and make sure they are all writable (right-click > Properties > untick Read only > OK).
4. Delete the copy’s <projectname>.cpd and pblsvrs.sss files.
5. Open the copy’s <projectname>.xpj file in Notepad and replace this section:
<miscproperties>
           <matchedpair>
                <name>vc::agent</name>
                <value>MSSCC</value>
           </matchedpair>
           <matchedpair>
                <name>vc::provider</name>
                <value>RoboSource Control 3.1</value>
           </matchedpair>
           <matchedpair>
                <name>vc::database</name>
                <value>NG7EMOTYBUX</value>
           </matchedpair>
           <matchedpair>
                <name>vc::cookie</name>
                <value>$/<project-folder>/<project>@:ROBOSOURCE</value>
           </matchedpair>
     </miscproperties>
With:
        <miscproperties/>
6. Close Notepad and save your changes.
7. Open the copy in RoboHelp – you can now work on the project as if it had never been associated with RSC! – and use the Add to Version Control option to add the copy to its new location in RSC.

The project file is not bound to source control, but the solution contains source control binding information for it.

This may be more of a SQL Server Management Studio question, but I couldn't find a SSMS forum...
I've got a database solution that contains several projects. They're just to keep track of changes to stored procedures, triggers, views, etc in a few databases I maintain. There is a problem with two of the projects though. No matter what I do, I can't seem to get them bound to source control right. When I open the solution, I get:
The project file is not bound to source control, but the solution contains source control binding information for it.
With two options, use solution binding and remove solution binding. If I keep the solution binding, everything works fine. But it's really annoying to have to deal with every time I open the solution. If I remove the solution binding, the projects are now unbound again. If I try to fix them (using the change source control or Add Selected Projects to Source Control options under the File->source control menu), I just end up in the same situation. I've even tried deleting the projects and re-creating them from scratch, then re-adding them to VSS. If I open the solution files in a text editor I can see the SCC tags in every project, but these two. Since I can't manually add the tags, and Management Studio itself only seems to want to bind them the wrong way, I'm getting really frustrated.
Can anyone point me toward a way to bind these so they work like the rest?

However, that does not appear to be the ONLY cause of the problem. I am a single user and only using TFS2010 and SSMS2008R2. My issue is that I wanted a solution file for each project so that they could managed independently, and a super-solution
file that contained all projects, so that I could perform system-wide searches and cross-checks.
I solved the problem by:
1. Choosing the option to use solution binding, then
2. Adding another project to the solution. This forced the re-write of the solution file.
3. Adding another script to the project. This forced the re-write of the project file.
4. Checking in all changes.
5. Deleting the new script and the extra project,
6 Checking in all changes.
This appears to have solved the problem.

Error when trying to add a project to Subversion source control

When trying to add a project to source control from within the OPM 10 studio (File - Source Control - Add Project to Source Control), the following error occurs:
"There was a problem accessing the source control system, probably due to network or contention issues. A retry is recommended."
This has been tried with Subversion versions 1.6.2, 1.6.5 and 1.6.6, with local repositories and repositories on a Apache webserver.
Once the project has been added to a repository, by using TortoiseSVN for example, working with source control is no problem.
Does anyone have a clue what the problem (and a solution) might be?
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Davin mentioned:
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In Oracle Policy Modeling, select File | Source Control | Open Existing Project from Source Control. When I open the File menu I do not see the "Source Control" at all.
Is this caused by an installation error or part of the "issue with the source control integration" ?
Please let me know if I'm the only one experiencing this problem ....
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3 questions - Source control vs. sub-projects

Hi -
I have 3 related questions:
1.) Seems like I remember a warning from a long time ago
(older versions) about having to check out the entire project -
because the user needs to access the .mpj/.xpj file. How does the
new RoboSource Control 6 handle checking out the project file?
2.) Also - Is it better to use sub-projects (merged projects)
or Source Control to support multiple users?
I believe one "con" to using merged projects is that you have
to manually deal with consolidating context IDs... Can anyone give
me some other pros and cons for each method?
3.) If I go with Source Control as the method for handling
multiple users - combining all of my topics into one project - I'm
concerned about the size of the project. I've encountered seriously
long compile times and corruption in past versions. Can anybody
provide real-world numbers for project size and compile time in
RoboHelp 6?
Thank you.

quote:
Originally posted by:
OE3-chick
Hi-
1.) Hmm.... so I think this means the the .xpj file would
still be accessed directly from a file share. So, if we worked
together and I opened the .xpj file to work on the project -
wouldn't it give you a warning that the file is already in use when
you go to open it and also work on the project? Can two people open
the same .xpj file now?
Oops, seemingly my fingers started typing the usual
answer before the brain achieved operating condition. The XPJ
contains no local stuff and can and should be committed to the
database. I was referring to CPD, PSS, and LDB.
quote:
Originally posted by:
OE3-chick
Regarding 2.) and 3.) Oop - I'm actually referring to authors
(users of the RoboHelp application). I was told that creating
seperate projects would allow multiple authors to use RoboHelp -
then they would be merged into a single project for the end
customer. So, my concern is about which method (
sub-projects/merged projects or Source Control) is better for
supporting multiple authors.
RoboSource Control is set up in such a way that multiple
authors can concurrently work at the same project. As soon as one
author manipulates a file from the project, this file is locked for
the other users. As long as different author ditribute the work on
the topics they can work without interferences. Exempt from this
optimistic description are the central files valif for the whole
project: HHC (table of contents), H and ALI (context sensitive
help), GLO (glossary), and BRS (browse sequences). the same is true
for the HHK (index), as long as you set up the project for using
this HHK-file.
So if you can teach your authors to concentrate on their
topics (and index entries) only in their work, and handle the other
stuff centrally, no one will ever notice that she is not the only
one working on the project. With up to five or six authors even the
conflicts are not so bad. Just ask the other who has locked, say,
the HHC to check it in and you can immediately work on the table of
contents yourself.
The other method using separate projects and merging the
stuff at run-time avoids these problems, but at a cost. Every
author can work on his (sub-) project to her heart's delight, but
getting the stuff together to form a seamless unit which looks to
the user like one help system only, takes some work. If users
should be able to open the help system via a context sensitive call
and the help should look a unified whole (all the help within one
window, index and TOC seamlessly merged, navigation through links
without errors), you'll have to fiddle around a bit.
quote:
Originally posted by:
OE3-chick
-- Is it better to use sub-projects (merged projects) or
Source Control to support multiple authors?
I believe one "con" to using merged projects is that you have
to manually deal with consolidating context IDs... Can anyone give
me some other pros and cons for each method?
If your programmers open the same help file for every help
call, you'll indeed have to manipulate the context IDs in a way
that RoboHelp does not support in its interface. Where a 'usual'
mapping reads:
CONTEXT_STRING=PATH/TO/MY_TOPIC.HTM
you'll have to write something like:
CONTEXT_STRING=MS-ITS::MAIN_HELP_FILE.CHM::/SPECIAL_HELP_FILE.CHM::/PATH/TO/MY_TOPIC.HTM
For each topic in one of the slave help files you'll have to
manually enter such a line into the MAP.ALI of the main project.
This works remarkably well, unless a user tries to open a
slave help by doubleclicking it in the Windows Exporer; he will get
an error message instead of a TOC.
quote:
Originally posted by:
OE3-chick
-- If I go with Source Control as the method for handling
multiple authorss - combining all of my topics into one project -
I'm concerned about the size of the project. I've encountered
seriously long compile times and corruption in past versions. Can
anybody provide real-world numbers for project size and compile
time in RoboHelp 6?
-Thank you.
Nope, as we are running X5 I can't answer this. But anyway, a
2,000 topic project takes some two minutes as far as compilation
goes; I wouldn't worry too much about this.
Regards
---Dirk Bock

Cannot get project to open from Source Control

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I test the issue by adding .zip file to TFS Azure version comtrol, the size include 10MB, 20MB, 100MB, 2GB, i can add they to version control properly without any problem.
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We are also experiencing extremely slow performance for RoboHelp projects under version control. We are using RoboHelp 11, PushOk and a Tortoise SVN repository on a Linux server. We are using a Linux server on our IT guys advice because we found SVN version control under Windows was unstable.
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Do other applications work fine with the source control repository? The reason I'm asking is because you must first rule out that there are external factors causing this behaviour. It seems that your it guys have already looked at it, but it's better to be safe than sorry.
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