Wednesday, October 26, 2011

How to Enable Version Control in ARS?

Hello everyone,

Version control is one topic where you need to setup on development environments to prevent implementation conflicts. ARS provides a version control system where developer has to reserve an object before modifying it and release after modification. In AR Server Information form, you will see a tab called Version Control:

In this tab, you have the option to enable "Object Reservation". Enabling this option will create a record in form "AR System Version Control: Object Reservation" for each object modification. If you need to modify an object which is reserved by another colleague, you should not change it :) If you really need to do this, you can delete the record from this form and make a refresh on the object list in Remedy Developer.
Second option in Version Control tab is "Object Modification Log" which creates a log entry in form "AR System Version Control: Object Modification Log" in case an object is modified. Idea is very basic: You can track the changes made to a particular object. If you enable the option "Save Definition Files", then old definition files will be saved within the object modification log.

1 comment:

  1. Hi,

    I am interested in knowing if it is also possible to revert to an older version of the form/object if the current version is broken, like we do in any standard version control tool?
    Also is it possible to create baselines and apply tags to objects under version control using this feature?

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