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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Mike Hutchinson on March 07, 2008, 12:19:30 am

Title: Make Version Control available in the EA Viewer
Post by: Mike Hutchinson on March 07, 2008, 12:19:30 am

Hi, first post!

I have a suggestion for the free-to-try EA viewer.  

I work on a large project in a reasonable-sized company, and we are just rolling out a large and complex version-controlled model.  We have four Business Analysts and about four developers currently working on the shared model (all with full licenced copies of EA).  Outside of these, there are approximately 15 Technical Managers and a fistful of Project Managers.

As you can see, we only need 8 read-write licences, and perhaps 20 read-only "licences".  However, EA Lite has version control disabled.

Would it be a big thing to enable this function in the free-to-try version?  From our point of view, it would make the tool MUCH more valuable to our business, and we would be much more likely to adopt it more generally around the business (meaning we buy more licences), knowing that the whole project team can benfit, not just the modellers.

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Title: Re: Make Version Control available in the EA Viewe
Post by: HowardB on March 12, 2008, 03:17:22 pm

Hello Mike,

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not sure what functionality you are wishing you had in EA Lite, that you expect to gain if version control is enabled.

You would see which packages are version controlled and which are not.  But, even if you were to check-out a package, EA Lite will still not let you do anything with the package, apart from view its content, which I believe you can do now anyway...

Can you please elaborate?

regards,
Howard Britten