Setting the work area path template for shared access

About this task

Set up the work area path template to create the build management project work areas in a shared location so that other build managers can access them.

The work area path defaults to C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\Synergy\ccm_wa (Windows users) or home/ccm_wa (UNIX users), where home is your home directory.

Procedure

  1. In the Work pane, click the Work Area tab.
  2. Click the Change Default Path button.

    The Options dialog box opens.

  3. Set the Base directory field to the shared location where you want the build management projects to reside.

Results

Both Windows and UNIX users should keep the +Database name check box set. This will cause the database name to be appended to the base directory.

You might need to reset the work area paths for existing build management projects to the shared location.

Optionally, you can divide your work area into release-specific or platform-specific work areas. This is useful to build managers to organize many projects into their own custom structure.

For example, say you have a toolkit project in each of two platforms that you build: vista and winxp. By setting a work area template to
N:\network_disk\Synergy\shared\ccm_wa\%release\%platform (Windows users) or home/ccm_wa/%release/%platform (UNIX users), you would see the following work areas:

Windows users:
\user\local\shared\ccm_wa\shared\2.8\vista\toolkit
\user\local\shared\ccm_wa\shared\2.5\winxp\toolkit

UNIX users:
/user/local/shared/ccm_wa/2.8/solaris/toolkit
/user/local/shared/ccm_wa/2.5/linux/toolkit


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