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I am looking for the templates needed to Emport and Import files from MKS Integrity 2009 to Excel and/or Word. The files are not located as described in the user guide and I was wonedering if anyone knew where I could find copies. According to Customer Support, PTC is in the process of moving the files and threads from the Legacy system and they are not sure when they will become available. Any assistance that can be provided will be greatly appreciated. Looking for: 1. MKSIntegrity2007_SP2_MSExcel2003_Integration.zip2. MKSIntegrity_MSWord_3_0_Integration_R2.zip

What is the command used to list the checked-in files in a specific Source project ?

MKS Source changes binary files automatically, how to prevent this? (migrated thread) Posted: Dec 8, 2011 7:54 AM    andreas.ulbricht2     Posts: 47   Registered: Nov, 2007 We made the experience that MKS Source changes content of binary files, probably since we have upgraded to MKS2009 version. The change of the regarded binary files seems to be triggered by the archive type of these files, which is set automatically to text by the MKS source system. The workaround provided by MKS to prevent change of (binary) files after standard check in and check out actions consists of inclusion of the type of file characterized by the file extension into a policy. This is absolutely not practicable for us, as we cannot check any file by extension whether it is changed by the MKS system or not and include it in a policy. Furthermore the described behaviour is absolutely not what we expect from a version control system. We expect from a version control system tha

I have a growing number of requests to enforce mandatory time entry, but specific to certain groups, certain states, and other attributes of the underlying item. For example, we currently mandate that time entries exist before we can move on to a "fixed" state. By doing that we ensure that some time is entered, but the approach boldly assumes without proof that the time entered includes the actual fixing. Person "A" might put in a time entry for diagnosis, and then person B might fix and forget to enter time. Mandating that time entries exist generically doesn't help us catch person B's omission.Additional requests include mandating entry of time by QA team members for verification of fixes. Of course with our "time entries exist" mandate already met by the time of fix, it is too late to use that generic mandate again for a subsequent workflow state.Before I go and invent a super-cool multi-purpose time-entry-checking trigger script I am sharing this with the community in the fond hope

I'm attempting to use ideamksplugin ( http://code.google.com/p/ideamksplugin/wiki/How_To_Build )With Integrity 2009 SP6 and IntelliJ Community Edition. Has anyone done that? Successfully? Got alternatives?Open source and maven and stuff are not familiar territory for me. So far I am stuck learning how to find the dependencies..Any help is always welcome.

1. Create 3 viewsets as META-DEV,META-TEST & META-PROD.If I click META-DEV view set it needs to display DEV Environment items. Similarly other view sets META-TEST point to TEST Environment and META-PROD point to PROD Environment.Note: META-DEV need not display 'TEST' & 'PROD' EnvironmentThanks in adavanceshankar

Hi all,Having some trouble getting integrity to shutdown on a system reboot. As far as I can tell, everything is installed properly. I can start and stop the service manually doing: service mksis stop or start, there's a symlink to it in the rc6.d folder, (ran chkconfig --add) but it still doesn't stop on a reboot. it may not be that big of a deal, but flex complains on the license server (different vm) that the license limit is already reached because it hasn't timed out yet. I know a little about linux - mostly ubuntu. As a test, I stuck the stop line (service mksis stop) in the rc script: S01reboot. this caused the service to attempt to stop, but it doesn't appear to succeed. This is evidenced by the console showing that its "stopping", but the log file never shows a shutdown, just the subsequent startup at boot.I'm wondering if maybe it needs to run before everything else starts shutting down, like a dependent service is getting turned off before it can do what it needs to do?Any i

Where do I look to find out if there is any costs associated with upgrading from 2010 to 10.1 and then to 10.2? (I really, really want the plugins for Rational 8.0.3!)Rick

Is there a way in MKS SI 2009 to perform atomic checkins?For example, I'd like to add, drop and edit files and check in all of those changes as a single, atomic repository change action so that others can't resynch, check out (or create devpaths or variant sandboxes) for inconsistent repository contents between the individual actions. Also, if a long check in fails or pauses partway through, for example due to a "do you want to branch that" dialog, missing file dialog or file I/O error, I'd like none of the preceding actions to go in. This is also to protect others from acting on inconsistent repository contents while I fix the issue.Obviously, defered actions come close, but are they truly atomic or can partial commits and checkin/checkout race conditions occur? This is aggravated by an occasionally slow VPN-checkins can take minutes at times due to large numbers of files and some large files.Many thanks,Barrie

I downloaded a trial for IBM RDP 8.5 and following the instructions to install the plug-in leads to an empty list. Has anyone else tried this?

Hey guys,Does anyone have the Integrity 10 Administrator's guide(s)? I cannot find them on PTC's website to save my life. I would love to have some good reference materials on version 10 but alas, nothing to be found.Thanks in advance,

How can I configure a sandbox scope like "path:AAA OR path:BBB OR name:frolic.txt"?The Help file for the 2009 MKS Integrity GUI says that the "si configuresandbox" command can be used to implement scopes using a combination of logical AND or OR operators, but the si manpage we have doesn't seem to mention --scope and the help text from "si configuresandbox -?" indicates some syntaxes like "name:value" and "path:<expression>" with no hints about how to apply logical operators.Pointers to documentation I missed are appreciated!Thanks,Barrie

computation with ibpl-fields (migrated thread) Posted: Jan 24, 2012 7:01 AM    extern.jens-uwe.nixdorf     Posts: 68  Registered: Jan, 2010 Hi @all,in a form we have an ibpl-picklist, where the users can select (multivalued) a number of items. In a second field we count the selected items with "relcount(<fieldname of ibpl-picklist>)". This is not a problem, but now i need another computation: the items in above mentioned picklist is not filtered by states, but i need the number of thise items in a special state. How can i do this? Thanks and regards, Jens Re: computation with ibpl-fields Posted: Jan 25, 2012 4:52 PM Posted By:   Bradley.Johnston     Posts: 5 /  Registered: Feb, 2008   This syntax should work for this purpose:aggregate(<fieldname of IBPL-picklist>, Sum(State=="Desired State on Related Item"?1:0))            Re: computation with ibpl-field

WeekOfYear() only works with the actual year? (migrated thread) Posted: Jan 30, 2012 4:39 AM    extern.jens-uwe.nixdorf     Posts: 68   Registered: Jan, 2010 Hi @all,i'm using the above mentioned function in a form. It should tell me the number of the week from a date, this date is set in a standard-date-field, so i use it in this way: weekofyear(name_of_the_date_field). But it works only if in the date field a date is set from this year. I have some data-sets with a date from last year, and in these sets the function doesnt work? Why?Thanks, Jens Re: WeekOfYear() only works with the actual year? Posted: Jan 30, 2012 7:29 AM Posted By:   extern.jens-uwe.nixdorf     Posts: 68 /  Registered: Jan, 2010   Hmm, since i'm using display pattern it works also for preivious years. regards, Jens            Re: WeekOfYear() only works with the actual year? Posted: Jan

How to compute "5 weeks before..." or such things (migrated thread) Posted: Jan 30, 2012 9:37 AM    extern.jens-uwe.nixdorf     Posts: 68   Registered: Jan, 2010 Hi @all,looks like i'm flooding this forum in the last days... Here comes my latest question: In a form we have three date-fields. We want to fill one field by hand ("delivery date") and then we want to have the other two fields filled automatically with dates like five weeks before delivery date and so on. How can i do that without using trigger?thanks, Jens Re: How to compute "5 weeks before..." or such things Posted: Jan 31, 2012 5:24 AM Posted By:   cstoss     Posts: 46 /  From: United Kingdon /  Registered: Jun, 2005   Jens,If you truly want "5 weeks before", that can be translated as "5 7 day periods before", which would be the computation:"dateField - 35"Since date subtraction is done by days.From the Inetgrity Admin Guide. Section Time

Dont want to copy Fields when Items are copied (migrated thread) Posted: Feb 22, 2012 4:47 AM    extern.jens-uwe.nixdorf     Posts: 68   Registered: Jan, 2010 Hi @all,in an Item-Type we have a long-text-field, which works as a kind of log. Every time a related child-item is changed, this log gets a new entry. When users now are copying one of the parent-items, the content of this field is also copied. But it shouldnt! How can i prevent this behaviour? The Item-Type hasnt any entry in its "Copy Fields"-Section.thanks, Jens Re: Dont want to copy Fields when Items are copied Posted: Feb 23, 2012 3:44 AM Posted By:   cstoss     Posts: 46 /  From: United Kingdon /  Registered: Jun, 2005   Jens,I think leaving the "Copy Fields" Section empty is the equivalent of the old behaviour where all fields were copied.I am not sure how to make it such that no fields are copied without de-selecting the "Copy Fields" wh

Field Relationship with an empty Source Field? (migrated thread) Posted: Feb 7, 2012 7:08 AM    extern.jens-uwe.nixdorf     Posts: 68   Registered: Jan, 2010 Hi @all,i have an item with two user fields ("A" and "B"). At a defined state ("Draft") the workflow in this item forks out and you can go to state "inAnalysis" or to state "approved". Now we want this functionality: If only the first user field has an entry, the item should only allow a transition to state "approved". If both user fields have an entry, the only possible transition should be to state "inAnalysis".I tried to do this with a field relationship, and wanted to do something like this: If the source field (the user field "B") is empty, the target field is state and has the only entry "approved". But this is not allowed, because the source field has to have any entry. We could have this functionality with an extra field (boolean or such thing), but we dont want to have an extra field An

MKS124155 ..fields are not editable: Day Count (migration thread) Posted: Apr 6, 2012 12:32 PM    egoldstein     Posts: 2   Registered: Dec, 2008 We recently upgraded from MKS2007 to MKS2009 SP7.  Since upgrading, users creating new release Items get the error "MKS124155 Error occurred when updating item <item#>: The following fields are not editable: Day Count."  Day Count computed field is visible, dynamic, stored to history daily, floating point.  It calculates the total number of days a release item was active.  The calculation is DateDiff(IsEmpty(DateLastEntered("Closed"),now()),"Created Date")/(24*60*60)Any ideas?   Re: MKS124155 ..fields are not editable: Day Count Posted: Apr 16, 2012 6:14 PM Posted By:   mlizak     Posts: 72 /  Registered: Feb, 2011   Hello Elizabeth,This would suggest that there is some sort of editability rule, either on the basic field, or a

Visual Studio Integration (migrated thread) Posted: Apr 20, 2012 8:31 AM    steven.williams     Posts: 2   Registered: Jan, 2011 When attempting to share a Visual Studio solution I get the following error:"The solution you have chosen to share does not yet exist on disk.  Please save your solution before attempting to share it." I don't understand what needs to be done.  The solution IS saved.  Has anyone seen and resolved this error? Re: Visual Studio Integration Posted: Apr 20, 2012 1:06 PM Posted By:   steven.williams     Posts: 2 /  Registered: Jan, 2011   For anyone else who has this issue.  I contacted MKS Support and found that this is a bug in 2009 SP 2,3 and 4.  It is fixed in SP 5 and later.

"Revision Description Required" for Revision 1.1 (migrated thread) Posted: Apr 16, 2012 3:12 AM becker Posts: 13 Registered: Nov, 2010 I'd like to have "revision description required" for Rev 1.1 instead of "initial version" automatically inserted in the revision description of 1.1. Is this possible? Re: "Revision Description Required" for Revision 1.1 Posted: Apr 24, 2012 12:38 PM Posted By: mlizak Posts: 72 / Registered: Feb, 2011 Hello Becker,Unfortunately, this is definitely not possible. The default text for the initial revision description is compiled into the code.Regards,Kael

not all file revisions captured in checkpoint (migrated thread) Posted: Apr 13, 2012 1:20 PM    ron.wilson     Posts: 7   Registered: Jun, 2011 I created a new development path from an existing checkpoint. Then I created a Variatn Sandbox from that development path. I checked out the needed files, then edited, test my fix, then checked the files back in. Then I did a checkpoint of the development path.When I reviewed the files just changed, some had received the label I specified during the checkpoint. Others did not.(see attached screen pictures)Then I did a Project Differences. The only files that showed up in the report were the ones that got the label. The others did not.This implies that the checkpoint did not capture all of the file changes.While I can (and did) go back and add the label to the other files, this still requires anyone trying to reconstitute this release to fetch the files by label rather than by checkpoint.Is there any way to re

MS word integration, any experienced user ? (migrated thread) Posted: Jun 17, 2008 6:57 AM    andreas.ulbricht2     Posts: 47   Registered: Nov, 2007 I've tried to import requirements into MKS integrity using the MS word integration. I was successful in importing something, but the structure of the imported content differs strongly from what I want to have. I have tried integration using the RM solution templates, and I did not succeed using the buttons described in the integrations builder guide. My impression is that documentation is absolutely incomplete. Is there anyone who has experience with the word integration and can send me example files, from which I can see how to structure the word content in order to get structured items imported into MKS integrity. Re: MS word integration, any experienced user ? Posted: Jun 18, 2008 4:43 PM Posted By:   jlittle     Posts: 1 /  Registered: Apr, 2007   The two

MKS 2009 to MKS 2010 Migrate (migrated thread) Posted: May 19, 2012 5:43 AM dkwq67 Posts: 10 Registered: May, 2012 Hi,i want to upgrade MKS 2009 to MKS 2010 integrity. while configure the Database it MKS Wizard. It throws an error "The Selected Existing Installation was configured to use RCS""RCS Repository is no longer supported for source. "Thanks in advance.-shankar Re: MKS 2009 to MKS 2010 Migrate Posted: May 23, 2012 3:16 AM Posted By: cstoss Posts: 46 / From: United Kingdon / Registered: Jun, 2005 Hello,I would suggest you contact PTC Integrity Support or your account team for information on the RCS repository to Database Repository Migration, and what is required before an upgrade to i10 can be completed.This change was announced in the following Product Alert: http://www.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/standards/freefull.jsp?&im_dbkey=141066&icg_dbkey=222[Link updated to point to migrated Product Alert --Kael]Regards,Craig Stoss

MKS KSH Issues on Win 7 x64 SP1 (migrated thread) Posted: May 23, 2012 4:22 PM jason.steiner Posts: 1 Registered: May, 2012 I'm seeing that an environment variable in a cmd window called “CommonProgramFiles” changes from “C:\Program Files\Common Files” to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files” when inside the KSH on a Win 7 x64 SP1 machine.This is causing an issue when the shell is forked to call other things using backticks. Can anyone suggest a workaround? Re: MKS KSH Issues on Win 7 x64 SP1 Posted: May 25, 2012 12:35 PM Posted By: mlizak Posts: 72 / Registered: Feb, 2011 Hello Jason,The first thing to check is the existence of the following profile files: $HOME/.bash_profile $HOME/.bash_login $HOME/profile.ksh ($HOME/.profile on UNIX systems) $HOME/.profilewhere $HOME should be the concatenation of the values $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH (%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% in the Windows/DOS command line).One of these files likely exists, and is initializing a new value for the $PATH va

Integrity Source 2007: See all user/group ACLs (migrated thread) Posted: Jun 14, 2012 8:13 AM    s.saul     Posts: 68   From: Germany  Registered: Aug, 2004 Hi,We are using Integrity Source 2007 and would like to see all ACLsa user/group is assigned to so we can see where he has access.This does not seem to be possible via GUI.Is it possible via CLI? I have not found a single command for this.If it is not possible: Is this feature implemented in Integrity 2009 or 10? Re: Integrity Source 2007: See all user/group ACLs Posted: Jun 22, 2012 1:18 PM Posted By:   jgorsline     Posts: 2 /  Registered: Mar, 2012   At this time, there is no direct command to list ACLs by user/group. In the CLI you can list all ACLs:>aa aclsAnd list the permissions/users/groups that are attached to each individual ACL:>aa viewacl --acl=^aclname^Unfortunately, there is no way currently to do this in reverse.    &