check outs

[michaelroop]

Hi,

We are using EA with source control.  We use perforce and it seems to work ok  

From what I can understand this is only available at the package level.  It would be nice to have a bit more granularity some day.

One of our problems is that we have deeply nested packages because of namespaces.  It seems that we can set up the nested packages to be able to be checked out also, but then if you check out the higher level one everything below is locked.  Is that so?

There are also several contest menu items under package control that are always greyed out.  The are some complaints that we are not able to refresh from within EA but need to go to the source control program itself

Get Latest
Get All Latest
Put Latest

Is there any reason why these would not be able to work?

Thanks

Michael  

[mobendorf]

Hey Michael - Did you ever find out why those menu items were greyed out? (having the same problem). You have probably already discovered this, but if you control at the most granular level first then your controlled packages at the higher levels will not cause everything under them to be locked. Make sure you check "Save nested version controlled packages to stubs.."

Also, has anyone been able to get concurrent checkouts (open for edit) to work with the P4 plug-in? Even though Perforce allows multiple people to open the same file for edit - it seems that EA disables this feature. That is, if someone has A.xmi opened for edit, then "Check out" is greyed out when selecting package control on package A.

Thanks,
Mike

[peter.zrnko]

Look at "Specifying Private or Shared Models" in the EA user guide.

In the Version Control Configurations dialog, the Private Model option affects the availability of the GetLatest / GetAllLatest functionality. These Get functions cannot be used with shared models.

[mobendorf]

Thanks for the tip Peter - I'll pass it along to my team...