Re: ClearCase and RoboHELP X5

Subject: Re: ClearCase and RoboHELP X5
From: Marni <marni68 -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "laura_johnson -at- agilent -dot- com" <laura_johnson -at- agilent -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:25:36 -0500

I will say that I guess I don't use it exactly as the CC folks probably
would like. What I do is work in RoboHelp and when it complains I just say
OK. It then "hijacks" the files [here's hoping the US govt reads this whole
email and not just that word. I'm not the one who decided to use the
term]. After I'm done with my edits, I go back in to CC Explorer. I check
out and then check in anything that's listed as a "hijacked". It's not the
best way, but it saves the back-and-forth effort.

On 3/17/06, laura_johnson -at- agilent -dot- com <laura_johnson -at- agilent -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Marni, I use ClearCase the way you do, but I've been frustrated by the
> level of "compatibility". I work normally within RoboHelp but have to go to
> ClearCase Explorer and check files out whenever Robo complains that they are
> read-only (or before I edit, if I know what I'm going to touch ... but more
> often I lose track and wait for Robo to complain).
>
> I believe the idea behind X5 "compatibility" with ClearCase was that we
> should be able to check files out easily *within* RoboHelp, just like the
> developers do in Visual Studio, but we were never able to get that to work.
> X5 is considerably better than X4 was, just because it does tell you when
> you're trying to write to a read-only (i.e. checked in) file, but working
> with ClearCase and RoboHelp together is tedious and error-prone for us (and
> doesn't work any better nor differently from working with Visual SourceSafe
> and RoboHelp, which we also do). Have you got it working better than we do?
>
>
> regards,
> Laura Johnson
> Learning Products Engineer
> Agilent Technologies
> Loveland, Colorado
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marni [mailto:marni68 -at- gmail -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:37 PM
> To: Tara Charter
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: ClearCase and RoboHELP X5
>
> Absolutely! I use ClearCase for version control of all my X5 projects. I
> know some people use ClearCase as a sort of safe receptacle, checking the
> entire project into ClearCase only after all their edits and after the
> project is complete. However, I use it just as the developers. I keep
> all
> my files in ClearCase. I open the .xpj file in ClearCase Explorer. I
> also
> use ClearCase labels for versioning. And, my developers (actually my
> Build
> Engineer) does all the help generation using the files in ClearCase. Our
> generated help is also stored in ClearCase, however it is NOT added to
> source control due to the nature of the files.
>
> On 3/15/06, Tara Charter <tara -dot- charter -at- physiciansmutual -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Are these two products compatible? (ClearCase version control and
> RoboHELP
> > X5).
> >
> >
> >
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