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What is a Teamwork Server?

Date Added: March 12, 2010 10:18:30 AM

What is a Teamwork Server?

The Teamwork Server is a piece of the software that allows more than one developer to work with the same model. The UML model is stored in the teamwork server repository and every developer working with either the Standard, Professional or Enterprise edition of MagicDraw may lock a part of the model and work on that part individually. Later changes may be committed to the server and shared with the team. The server works much like the source code version control system.

Benefits of the Teamwork Server

Faster team collaboration. Every developer may instantly obtain the newest version of the model; everybody is allowed to work in parallel on its own part. No need to merge separate XMI files by hand.

Simpler configuration management. All designs are stored in a single place, there are no more files that are scattered around in the network; changes can be introduced orderly and without conflicts.

Controlled access to your artifacts. Different people in the project may have different access levels to the projects stored in the teamwork server repository.

Remote access. No matter where you are, if you are connected to the Internet you may work with the model that is stored in the repository. A project manager may provide read only or full access to the repository for the overseas developers, customers, subcontractors, management, and other interested parties.

No constant connection required. Every user may save their teamwork project locally and work without a constant connection with the Teamwork Server. Locally changed project files can be committed to the Teamwork Server at later date.

Teamwork Server Functions

The user working with the teamwork server may perform several operations:

Create a brand new teamwork project or make existing XMI model to be a teamwork project.

Get the newest copy of the model from the server (update).

Lock for edit part of the model on the server. When part of the model is locked every other user that is working with the teamwork server has read-only access to this part.

Commit changes to the teamwork server. After the locking and editing the user may commit the changes to the server thus making them visible to the whole team. Unlock operation may be performed after the commit in order to allow other users to edit new information.

Send message to one specific teamwork user or all users that are connected to that server.

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