Setting the work area path template for shared access

Set up the work area path template to create the build management project work areas. Create the 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 Change Default Path.

    The Options dialog box opens.

  3. Set the Base directory field to the shared location where you want to place the build management projects. Both Windows and UNIX users can keep the +Database name check box set. The database name is appended to the base directory. You can reset the work area paths for existing build management projects to the shared location.

Example

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

For example, 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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