Team collaboration with VP Teamwork Server

Team collaboration is the practice of working in a team instead of by one person. Team members can work individually on their own specific parts of a project, and eventually combine works together to form a complete project. This chapter provides you with clear information on VP-UML's team collaboration support.

 

Introduction to team collaboration

Describes the key concepts about team collaboration like administration, commit, update, revert, etc.

 

The teamwork client

Teamwork Client, where you can manage, checkout and open projects, involves all teamwork activities that you can perform with.

 

Checkout project

Checkout project is a process that you download a managed project from repository to your computer and start working with.

 

Commit

Commit refers to the process of uploading local modifications to the server.

 

Update

Update is the process of refreshing your current copy by merging changes that others have made and committed previously to server.

 

Branching

In teamwork collaboration, the term trunk refers to your main stream of development.

 

Tagging

Tag refers to a named version of your work at a point of time on the trunk.

 

Revert local modification

Since VP teamwork collaboration allows the feature of revert, you can undo all modifications you made in the local project copy when the changes haven't been committed yet.

 

Roll back past revisions changes

VP teamwork collaboration maintains the histories of changes on your project.

 

Export revision

VP teamwork collaboration maintains the histories of changes on your project.

 

Support commit part of project to Teamwork

Other than committing the whole project, you may commit specific model elements/diagrams to Teamwork.

 

Managing Teamwork Files

Add, commit teamwork files in Teamwork Files pane