Reporting in RoboSource Control

I am working with RH7. My company currently does not use
RoboSource control. I would like to have it as there are three
writers in our department working on the same materials. While we
are able to communicate to each other about when we are working on
a project, I think having RSC would eliminate the risk of us
writing over each others' work.
But to the meat of my question: Does RSC have the ability to
run reports on the creation and last edit dates of topics within
different projects?
As we create more and more materials for different
departments at our company, we are looking for an easy way to
report on topics that haven't been worked on in a while to schedule
a review.
Having this reporting capability may be additional ammunition
in our quest for RSC. Thanks all. Hope my question is in the right
place.
Trustwriter

Hi Trustwriter -
I hadn't tried to use the RSC reporting function in a long
time, so I took a quick look. It appears that you can specify a
date range and find files that changed during that time. That's not
the same thing, though. I didn't see much in the way of bells and
whistles. You might want to set up a test database and take a look
at it yourself.
G

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I think I understand correctly that I need to ask a DB or Technical Support expert to set up an SQL database for me. That should hopefully prove to be straightforward.
However, when I currently open the Connection List in RH10 (File > Version Control > Add To Version Control), I can only see a connection to SharePoint. There is no Create button to enable me to add a new link for when the new database is set up for me.
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Use SharePoint for version control: This is very easy to set up and if you are a SharePoint administrator you don't need any IT guys helping out. This is by far the simplest way to go.
You will need SharePoint 2010 or 2013. SharePoint 365 doesn't work.
If you have SharePoint there is no additional cost involved.
Use RoboSourceControl: This is the source control system included in RoboHelp itself.
It works rather well, but it is a pain to set up. You need a database (and a server to host that) and connect every team member to the source control system.
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IIS is7.5, AppPool is Integrated.
I have tried below, none of them works:
1) Add it only to system.web\httpHanders. Changed AppPool to classic, still got hidden error.
2) Add it only to system.webServer\handlers. Integrated mode,still got hidden error.
3) Add both to both element. Integrated mode, still got hidden error.

Hi Kingofwebguru,
According to your description, when you use reportviewer control, you got the error message: The Report Viewer Web Control HTTP Handler has not been registered in the application's web.config file.
To troubleshoot the problem, please refer to the following steps:
Click Start, click Run, then type InetMgr.exe and click OK.
Click plus sign next to server name to expand it.
Click Application Pools in left pane.
In Application Pools list, click DefaultAppPool.
In the Actions pane, in Edit Application Pool section, click Edit Settings to check the Pipeline mode.
Configuration settings for the HTTP handlers are specified in the system.web/httpHandlers element and the system.webServer/handlers element. of your application Web.config file. The handler specified in system.web/httpHandler is used by Internet Information
Services (IIS) 6.0 or IIS 7.0 in Classic mode, whereas the handler specified in system.webServer/handlers is used by IIS 7.0 in Integrated mode. To use IIS 7.0 in Integrated mode, you must remove the HTTP handler in system.web/httpHandlers. Otherwise, IIS
will not run the application, but will display an error message instead.
For more information about Web.config Settings for ReportViewer, please refer to the following document:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251661.aspx
If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.
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Wendy Fu
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