Team Collaboration

When you are committing your work, Teamwork Server helps to create a version (formally known as a revision) in background. This let you review, or even roll back to a previous version whenever necessary. Comparison can also be made between versions so that you can tell the major differences between two versions of software, through studying the differences between their design blueprints.

A conflict arises when two people attempt to make changes to the same part of a project (e.g. give different names on the same use case). Conflicts are inevitable in any kind of software development project. But with reliable conflict resolution support, you can save a lot of time in finding and resolving conflicts. The conflict resolution feature of VP-UML involves a sophisticated conflict detection function, an interactive interface that guides you the way to resolve conflicts, and the ability to resolve conflicts by considering both the conflicts and their related parts.

User's Guide

• Commit
• Update

Social networking with PostMania

• Supported multiple shape and connector selection when posting a topic in PostMania

  Raise discussions around multiple shapes in your design. Simply make a multiple shape selection in PostMania and post your message. Both the web client and VP-UML are supported.

Chat with the analysts, designers, software developers or whoever in your team directly inside VP-UML, right in a diagram. PostMania, a private social networking platform designed for software development teams, facilitates easy discussion of software designs. It enables team members to post and reply discussions to a diagram or a shape. Just make a post to ask for change, and moments later you receive a reply from your teammate, saying "Done" and with a smiley face. PostMania simply breaks communication barrier and improves the bonding of development team.

Keep designing, and commit the part that is stable and finalized. The partial commit feature allows you to commit, not the whole project but any little part of it. You can commit selectively a diagram, or just a shape to the repository, out of the whole project.

You may want to include the implementation guidelines to class models, or to include the functional specification to use case models, etc. You can associate any kind of external documents with diagrams, shapes or even model elements. And with the use of the Corporate Edition of Teamwork Server, both your design along with supplementary files can be stored and maintained in the central repository, ready for sharing with your teammates. They can open supplementary documents directly from a design, without any extra effort.

Incorporate innovative ideas into your design while keeping the original one intact. The idea of branching is to create a copy of the original design project, which enables you to make any kind of change without affecting the original copy. Branching is best for you to explore new ideas for new releases. By working on an isolated branch, you can make any kind of changes, i.e. restructure class model, modify use case specification, refine the program flow as represented in interaction diagrams, etc. And when the design is mature enough, just merge the changes back to the original design. Simple and safe.

User's Guide

• Branching
• Tagging

Although Visual Paradigm Teamwork Server comes with so many value-added features, we know that some users still prefer using primitive version control systems. So in addition to Teamwork Server, we support version control with Subversion (SVN), Perforce, ClearCase and CVS. Although some of the advanced features are available only for Teamwork Server users, you can still perform all the fundamental operations like checkout, commit, update, branching and tagging with those primitive version control systems.

Protect your design from accidental modification by locking it. Locking permits users viewing but not modifying your design. You can apply a general lock without password, or to control the modification rights with password.

Tutorial

• Protecting your design in a team collaboration environment

Teamwork in the cloud, from anywhere, with VPository

VPository makes it easy for any software team to collaborate online. With software design work stored in VPository, developers can connect to it, checkout the projects they need and start working. Have a look at some of the great features/benefits of using VPository:

• Get up and running in seconds
• Subscribe VPository and start collaboration. No learning or installation required.
• Collaborate from anywhere
• Nothing can stop you from collaborating with your colleagues. Whenever you are online, you can access your work from VPository.
• No hosting required
• You don't have to find hosting, or manage any server. You don't need any software in extra. When your team is ready, we are here for you.
• Available day and night, 24 hours a day
• Our servers spread across multiple centers in different geographical locations. Connection is fast, regardless of your location, and is always available.
• Your work is safe
• VPository includes the tools you need to manage user accounts and projects, control permissions and access rights.

Compare diagrams with an old revision

The "Visual History" feature shows any backup copies of your great design. It allows you to see the evolvement of a diagram and revert it to an earlier revision if necessary. By comparing the latest design with an earlier revision, you can easily tell at glance what was added to, removed from and/or updated in a design.

* This feature is only available in VPository/Coporate Edition of Teamwork Server
* Can only trace back to revisions committed with version 10.0 (or any higher version)

Compare model properties with an old revision

Further to comparing diagram revisions, you can also compare model properties such as name, documentation, etc. Clear symbols are used to indicate the various kind of changes, which helps you find out easily an old name of an element, or to study an earlier version of its specification.

* This feature is only available in VPository/Coporate Edition of Teamwork Server
* Can only trace back to revisions committed with version 10.0 (or any higher version)

Get specific change from specific revision

When you found an earlier revision of your design better than the latest one, or when mistake was made and require correction, you can take advantage of the 'restore revision' function to rollback your work to the state it was before. To restore changes is straightforward. Whenever you have performed a comparison between revisions of diagrams, models or whatsoever, you can always find a restore button nearby for you to grab the change you want, instantly.

* This feature is only available in VPository/Coporate Edition of Teamwork Server
* Can only trace back to revisions committed with version 10.0 (or any higher version)