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I am testing out the 5.4 version trial of your Source Anywhere product right now and must say overall I like it very much. However I am wondering if there is an option to graphically represent what files are not in sync with the repository... (between local and remote). This is something that I am quite used to with subversion (rapidSVN) and I think it makes source control more efficient to use...

I see that there is a column for versions of local and remote as well as a status column... but if you are scanning tens if not hundreds of files it will be hard to pick out the ones that are out of sync unless there is a different icon, or the line is highlighted in some way. I do see that you can sort by the status, and that would be a somewhat cumbersome workaround on an individual folder basis... but I would wonder if the same graphical representation would be possible in the hierarchical folder viewer on the left hand panel?

If these are not options right now, could I submit them as a future feature request?

thank you,
nate martin

Hi Nate,

> but I would wonder if the same graphical representation would be possible in the hierarchical folder viewer on the left hand panel?

Currently, SourceAnywhere for VSS doesn't have this feature. I will add your request to our feature list for future consideration.

Actually, we think our "Status" field contains more info than a simple representation of if the file is in sync. And the order of the status can help you find the related files quicker. Do you agree?

Thanks.

Hi Catherine,

I do agree that your status field is very useful... but it doesn't help when I need to scan lots of files... it is to easy to miss something important. I can sort by status... but this still isn't as good.

Even more important to us, we would ideally like to be able to see the status of each file in a tree view... we have a java project.. so everything is package oriented. We have a lot of packages and a lot of levels to our project. This makes finding a file that is renegade, in need of merge, etc... very time consuming. If we could just see everything all on one screen that would make our work so much easier.

Here is an example of what we would love to see:

Working Folder: C:\directory\project
-------------------------------------------
Name.................................................| User | Date-Time | Local Modification | Remote Version | Local Version | Status
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\directory\project
...file1.java.........................................| ... | ......... | ..................... | ................. | ......... | Normal
...file2.java.........................................| ... | ......... | ..................... | ................. | ......... | Normal
...file3.java.........................................| ... | ......... | ..................... | ................. | ......... | Normal
...C:\directory\project\level2a
......Myfile1.java..................................| ... | ......... | ..................... | ................. | ......... | Normal
......Myfile2.java..................................| ... | ......... | ..................... | ................. | ......... | Needs Merge
......Myfile3.java..................................| ... | ......... | ..................... | ................. | ......... | Normal
......C:\directory\project\level2a_1
.........Our_file1.java.............................| ... | ......... | ..................... | ................. | ......... | Normal
.........Our_file2.java.............................| ... | ......... | ..................... | ................. | ......... | Normal
.........Our_file3.java.............................| ... | ......... | ..................... | ................. | ......... | Normal
...C:\directory\project\level2b
......Yourfile1.java................................| ... | ......... | ..................... | ................. | ......... | Normal
......Yourfile2.java................................| ... | ......... | ..................... | ................. | ......... | Normal
......Yourfile3.java................................| ... | ......... | ..................... | ................. | ......... | Renegade



etc....


Is there any way this could be added to an upcoming release? I would imagine that anyone who has a multi directory project would benefit from this kind of layout...

Thanks,
nate martin

Thanks a lot for your suggestion. We may consider it for our future version. For now, you can use the Status column to identify the changed files.

Sincerely,

Hi, Thanks for the information.........

For anyone else that wants to do something like this, I have used a 3rd party tool, Beyond Compare, to bridge *most* of the gap.

I already was using it to do the diff as it handles the folders in a tree view and you can hook it up to check in and check out files as well as see their status with respect to being different from local to source repository. The only problem is apparently the SCC api that is binding SourceAnywhere to Beyond Compare does not support the full range of statuses that SourceAnywhere provides... which is a bummer.

I would still love to see this in SourceAnywhere and believe that it would make it all that much better a tool, but this is working for me ok right now.

~nate

Hi Nate,

Thanks for your info.

For information on how to use a third-pary diff tool with SourceAnywhere for VSS, please refer to:
http://www.dynamsoft.com/help/SAW/CC_Ex ... ptions.htm