Team Collaboration

What was the previous design like again?

Human memory may recall but an actual revision file probably will answer that question more easily - just can’t beat such archive offered with business process diagrams and files in sync. Increase efficiency by convenient file sharing among team members.

• Commit part of local modification to VP Teamwork Server
• Commit diagram
• Commit some shapes
• Commit some model elements

Avoid unauthorized changes by locking diagrams with password.

Tutorial

• Protecting your design in a team collaboration environment

VP Teamwork Server keeps all histories of changes of diagrams and model elements. With VP Teamwork Server you can review and compare change histories of specific diagram and model element visually with the "Revision History" function. You can also export and open full project of old revisions. The following movie demonstrates how to open old revisions and use the revision history function to compare changes between revisions in diagram base and model element base.

Business Process Visual ARCHITECT helps merge changes from different team members during commit or update. Let's say when two or more team members have modified the same model element, and performed commit or update one after the other, the merge engine will detect that there is a conflict occurred, and prompt to resolve the conflict. Conflicts can be resolved by overwrite (keep local change) or revert (keep server change). The following movie demonstrates how to resolve a conflict in Business Process Visual ARCHITECT Teamwork Client.

Business process improvement and software development is a continuous process. There are several milestone and release points throughout the process. In Business Process Visual ARCHITECT you may create a baseline for milestone or release, by creating tag of project - a frozen revision of project. You may compare changes of business process, static design, behavioral design and database design between releases with few mouse clicks. Sometimes, your team may need to examine risky idea on the model, or to carry out long term development tasks, and want to isolate the work from stable trunk, branch is what you need. There is a branch feature for creating an isolated revision of project. Your team can keep modifying the branch and merge the branch to trunk after the development is completed and tested. The following movie demonstrates how to create a tag (release) revision and branch.

VP Teamwork Server is a powerful yet easy to manage collaboration platform. All configurations can be set through a web browser, which let administrator administrate and backup VP Teamwork Server with minimal technical knowledge and effort. VP Teamwork Server comes with build-in user authentication and can integrate with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Windows Active Directory. The following movie demonstrates how to manage users and project with web browser.