Update notifications and/or automatic reloads

[AndrewP]

Hello everyone!

We have been using Enterprise Architect for a while now with individual files and are now moving to using a shared SQL Server repository.  There will be a number of developers all adding and updating diagrams.  It would be very useful to detect when other users have made updates and additions elsewhere in the tree (Nobody should be updating the same diagram at the same time though accidents may happen).   Right now, we are manually reloading the project browser periodically.  We'd like to automate this either by having the browser automatically refresh or by having some sort of visual indication of when there is something to reload.  

I have read through the manual and the forums and also looked at the menu options in EA and cannot find anything related.  I'm hoping I've simply missed something.  Other people must have had to deal with this previously.  Is there a way to do something like this or should I put in a feature request?

Thanks,
Andrew.

[Takeshi K]

To update the changes automatically, we made an Add-in product 'Collaboration Addin'. It is a simple server process and client for each machine.

Please try if you are interested:
http://www.sparxsystems.jp/en/collab/

[HowardB]

Please see the notes on automatic diagram locking in step 4 on this page: http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/projects_and_teams/usersecurity2.html

regards,
Howard.

[AndrewP]

Thank you!