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General Board / Re: Creating a Design Master

« on: December 06, 2013, 10:36:47 pm »

Oh and the MS Access thing looks like a red herring. I can create design masters on just one PC, all the others I have tried won't open exclusively. Just got to work out what the difference is.

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General Board / Re: Creating a Design Master

« on: December 06, 2013, 10:35:30 pm »

Pain is good

But in reality we have multiple projects running in distributed groups with multiple off line users. Each small group is going to manage the merging on it's own small subsection and then the main project masters will be mreged back in to the main repository. Personally I'd rather the EAP files died now but EZ doesn't cope with disconected users and small project groups. The idea of a user clicking synchronise is a lot easier than every users importing their own xml files and handling the merge based on what they think it should be.

I'm wondering if SQL server merge replication would work instead??

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General Board / Re: Creating a Design Master

« on: December 06, 2013, 03:16:57 am »

It would appear that to create design masters you need the full version of MS Access installed. Once you have the master created replicas can be created without the full version as does the synchronisation process. Just trying it now to confirm if I'm right.

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General Board / Re: Creating a Design Master

« on: December 05, 2013, 11:24:03 pm »

The EAp file is not unser version control

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General Board / Re: Creating a Design Master

« on: December 05, 2013, 10:57:07 pm »

We have SQL Server repository with version control provided by TFS. I have created xml exports of my repository and imported them in to an EAP file. i wantt o trun this EAP file in to a Design master so i can create replicas which i can distribute to our off line team members. The issue I am having is when I have the EAP file open in EA and fromt he menu choose create master I get a message saying that "The database must be opened in exclusive mode before it can be replicated".

I hav e to have the database open to get the option on the menu. If it's not open the option is greyed out. I have tried this with security enabled and without. I have tried every level of locking as these seem to relate to the opens you get when opening an access database, but none allw me to do what I want.

I feel that I am looking for an option where i can open the project exclusively in the first place yet no such option appears to be available.

Once I have done this I can create replicas and see what happens when two or more users update the same artefact, and then work out how to resolve any confilcts. Once this is done I can then export the xml again and reimport in to the main SQL repository, comparing to the original base line, and checking in any changes that we want to keep.

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General Board / Re: Creating a Design Master

« on: December 05, 2013, 10:35:40 pm »

I'm pretty sure I have described them in that I get a dialogue box that tells me i need to open the file exclusvely yet there is no option to do this. I have been pretty specific.

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General Board / Re: Creating a Design Master

« on: December 05, 2013, 09:01:05 pm »

unfortuantely that still doesn't work. Looks like an impossible option. why EA doesn't have an option to open a project exclusively is quite mistifying. This is a complete show stopper for us. We are using a SQL server repository and TFS as version control but need remote users to be able to contribute to projects. Don't want them taking individual copies everywhere as they will be impossible to manage. My only thoughts now are to install SQL Server Express on their laptops and do some sort of export to there and work out how to cope with multiple users ont he same project. Doen't look like EA is actually designed with larger teams in mind

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General Board / Re: Creating a Design Master

« on: December 05, 2013, 03:15:11 am »

Unfortuantely to do this from the EA menu you have to have the project open. It's all a bit odd that it tells you what you need to do but doesn't give you an option to actually do it.

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General Board / Re: Creating a Design Master

« on: December 05, 2013, 02:25:47 am »

Unfortuantely that doesn't make any difference. We need to use design masters for disconnected (laptop) users and off site users. Our main repository is SQl Server. we are exporting to a EAP file and then using that for smaller teams to work on, and then remerging in a controlled fashion periodically.

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General Board / Creating a Design Master

« on: December 05, 2013, 02:13:37 am »

i am trying to create a design master from my EAP file but I keep getting told I need to open the file exclusively. For the menu option to be available you have to have the project open but this seems to open in a non exclusive fashion. Can anyone tell me how I open the EAP file exclusively through EA?

Thanks in advance!