Article
Search
Shameless Plugs
Most Popular
Who's online
User login
5471
How-to: Setting up Subversion for Designer on Windows
For those who are familiar with Designer and are working on a project for multiple environments (dev, qa, prod) or for those supporting multiple customers, version control in Designer is a great way to keep track of changes, revert changes, and document projects.
For those who work as a team supporting the same project for multiple environments, version control is not optional.
Below is a quick step-by-step guide on how to obtain, install and configure Subversion on the Windows platform. It could be used on a single Designer desktop, or deployed on a network server for multiple deployed copies of Designer.
For detailed information on how to use version control features of Designer once Subversion is available, check the online documentation: http://www.novell.com/documentation/idm40/designer_admin/data/versioncontrol.html
First step, you need to download a copy of Subversion (free) from a site like: http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/subversion.html
Installing Subversion
Configuring Subversion
Figure 12: You can change the port that Subversion will be listening to for network connections.
Using Subversion from Designer
Figure 21: Using web client, you can browse and see individual components in version.
Figure 22: Using the Version Control view, which can be accessed from Window/Show View, you can compare individual components in your project with checked-in versions.
Figure 24: Using History, one can get/obtain a checked-in version to replace individual project components.
Hopefully, this quick guide will get you up to speed with version control in Designer, and after reading the documentation and exploring right-clicks and the Version Control view, you will be able to integrate version control best practices into your daily use of Designer.
Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).
It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.
Related Articles
User Comments
Another version of setting up Subversion
Submitted by geoffc on 1 April 2011 - 11:11am.
David Gersic wrote something like this, more for the Unix side in this article:
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/2799/settin...
Excellent! Thanks for the article! Different platforms, different approaches, all are needed
- Be the first to comment! To leave a comment you need to Login or Register
Nice guide. I've been
Submitted by rewrite on 3 April 2011 - 9:27am.
Nice guide. I've been considering trying out subversion for a while now. This was very helpful.
- Be the first to comment! To leave a comment you need to Login or Register
2