Version handling VSS.

[Shahram]

Hi!

Is there a way of versionhandling EA files? We use Visual source safe. When VSS checks in a file it makes it readonly, EA cannot open readonly files. This makes it really a hassle because you have to check out a file inorder to look at it.

Any workarounds?

Cheers,
Shahram

[potterm]

Shahram,

You could investigate using Controlled Packages, in which selected packages within your model can be imported/exported from and to XML files.  

Using this method you can check the resulting XML files in and out from VSS.  This method also gives you finer grained control over versioning of your model.

I don't think EA needs to have write permission on these XML files in order to import them, so you wouldn't need to check-out every time from VSS.

That said, I think Sparx is working on supporting VSS interfaces in a future release of EA (maybe they'll include this in v3.60 which is due out shortly).

regards,
Martin.

[Darren Lock]

You might also like to consider enabling security on the model so that once you have imported the XML you can lock it against change.