Windchill Customization Source Control

[PreetiGupta]

Hi
We have been recently adding customization to Windchill 9.Those type of customization categorized as follows

- Adding/Removing actions for Windchill objects
-Adding new actions in Profile
-New JSP files addition
-OOTB JSP files modification
-Workflow customization with java code though we use workflow helper file, but we end up adding code in activity itself.

My question is how do you manage above customizations to Windchill? How do you source control all changes?

We right now document carefully what all we change and have a change log entry and the actual files are on a shared drive. But now it has become tedious to keep track of all these changes due to its nature.

And how do you keep track of workflow changes?

Thanks,
Preeti



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Thank you.

[pwilliams-3]

Look for a presentation that was given at the 2008 World Event. There was a presentation that discussed this very topic.

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[pyalavarthi]

Hi Preeti,
Source control tools provide substantial advantages compared to
storing files in shared drive . You can start with a free tool like
subversion





On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Williams, Patrick S. <
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[VincentQuesnoit]

Hi,

Why not use the product you're working on ?

I personnally store my changes in PDMLINK itself, with proper documentation,which takes care of revision control. You have the choice of doing it on your testmachine or onyour production system.

I use a dummy Product which is visible to admins only.

One way to improve this (but that I did not implement in PDMLINK) would be to create a product structure that maps to the locationsin the windchill tree which you modify. You could use a special type of part to representin PDMLINK directoriesof the real life system. I gather that it would then be possible to create a tool that would walk that tree and build the installable structure for you.

This has worked for me when I was doing heavy development on another configuration manager product. I did not implementfor PDMLINK because I only do light customisation on it.

HTH,

Vincent

[pyalavarthi]

Good point Antonio. I once used Projectlink as a bug tracking tool. It
worked out very well .

Regards,
Prathap





On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Vincent Quesnoit <vincent.quesnoit@bull.net<br/>> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Why not use the product you're working on ?
>
> I personnally store my changes in PDMLINK itself, with proper
> documentation, which takes care of revision control. You have the choice of
> doing it on your test machine or on your production system.
>
> I use a dummy Product which is visible to admins only.
>
> One way to improve this (but that I did not implement in PDMLINK) would be
> to create a product structure that maps to the locations in the windchill
> tree which you modify. You could use a special type of part to represent in
> PDMLINK directories of the real life system. I gather that it would then be
> possible to create a tool that would walk that tree and build the
> installable structure for you.
>
> This has worked for me when I was doing heavy development on another
> configuration manager product. I did not implement for PDMLINK because I
> only do light customisation on it.
>
> HTH,
>
> Vincent
>
>
>
>

[dtkach1]

I think it makes sense to separate Software Configuration Management and Product Configuration Management. Different processes are involved in both. The reason can be the implementation of Continuous integration environment for PDMLink and ProjectLink.

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[phartwig]

Hello,

We are looking into updating our source control tool and supporting processes and are wondering what others are doing. If you would be kind enough to answer the following questions, I will summarize and post the results...


Which source control tool so you use?

Are you storing the Windchill install in your source control tool?

How are you tracking issues (bugs/enhancements)?

Is your build/deployment process automated?

What is the average time it takes to deploy new code?



Thank You,


Paul Hartwig
PLM Application Development
Ingersoll Rand Climate Control Technologies
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Minneapolis, MN 55420

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7 (952)886-6064
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[avillanueva]

I am using Telelogic Synergy. IDE is Netbeans 6.5.1. Issues (tasks) are
tracked in Synergy. No automated build (yet). Time to deploy once I've
compiled? That depends on the left of testing required. Probably a few
days to a week to get through test server and deployment to Production.

[PreetiGupta]

We use Serena for source control here. We only keep track of changed and new files. No automation yet, depending on the complexity of change deployment time defers.