New Teamstudio Tools
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Teamstudio has just released version 24 of it's tools. I don't have the complete set of tools but I do have the big 4 - Analyzer, CIAO, Delta and Configurator.
In addition to being Notes 8 compatible there's a couple of really interesting features that I'm going to be playing with.
CIAO now has a new "Branch Manager". I've been looking for something to do this for a long time. I hate having a template checked out because you're working on big updates and now they want something small to go in pretty quick. You don't want to promote the big changes but you need to get the minor one in. You can't update the production database of course, so now you might have to spin off a new template. We'll now CIAO is supposed to be able to handle this automatically and merge the changes between different "branches" off the main template.
Another interesting feature of CIAO is the ability to link it to a custom issue tracking database. This might provide better documentation tracking. And forcing check ins and outs to have an issue adds a good control that should keep the auditors.
I'll be talking more about this once I get a chance to play with it more.
Teamstudio has just released version 24 of it's tools. I don't have the complete set of tools but I do have the big 4 - Analyzer, CIAO, Delta and Configurator.
In addition to being Notes 8 compatible there's a couple of really interesting features that I'm going to be playing with.
CIAO now has a new "Branch Manager". I've been looking for something to do this for a long time. I hate having a template checked out because you're working on big updates and now they want something small to go in pretty quick. You don't want to promote the big changes but you need to get the minor one in. You can't update the production database of course, so now you might have to spin off a new template. We'll now CIAO is supposed to be able to handle this automatically and merge the changes between different "branches" off the main template.
Another interesting feature of CIAO is the ability to link it to a custom issue tracking database. This might provide better documentation tracking. And forcing check ins and outs to have an issue adds a good control that should keep the auditors.
I'll be talking more about this once I get a chance to play with it more.
