'Make Design Master' unselectable

[andykennelly]

I'm exploring aspects of the 'Tools/Data Management/Manage .eap file/Make Design Master' function.
For 2 of my .eap projects all the options under 'Tools/Data Management/Management/Manage .eap file' are greyed out (i.e. I can't select 'Make Design Master)'. These projects are seucirty enabled but my user has 'Manage replicas' permissions.
Everything is fine for all other projects. The only difference I can see is that the 2 projects are linked to an external data source (i.e. they were created by the 'Connect to server' option and then pointed to a SQL server data source.). Might this explain why 'Make Design Master' isn't available for those projects?

[Eve]

If I understand what you've done correctly, the problem is that the files you can't use replication on are failing because they aren't eap databases, but just references to the SQL server databases. The commands are then disabled because you're on the wrong database type.

[andykennelly]

Thanks Simon. That makes perfect sense (and is obvious now you point it out to me!!). At our organisation we're aiming to maintian a persistent view of our (modelled) systems that projects will take a cut of to update and then merge against the persistent view when they've finished. The master-replica appproach seemed to support this. However, we're using a SQL server (to allow sharing etc.). Is there an equivalent approahc, do you know, that might allow us to do this against a SQL DB??

[Eve]

Well, SQL server supports replication in a similar way, but EA is not aware of that functionality.