[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: Using Labs in PDSOE

[mroberts@rev.com.au]

Hi All, RTB 11.8.1, OpenEdge 11.7.3 We have upgraded to Roundtable 11.8.1, and are starting to use Labs to allow testing and development is PASOE. We currently have a main Dev PASOE instance, where code is checked out, and worked on, but multiple developers fall over each others changes. To prevent the falling over each other, we are spinning up a PASOE instance for each developer. They are then responsible for their dev environment, starting, stopping, reviewing logs, making changes, without having code checked out the whole time and blocking other development, and any changes they make does not cause other developers to deal with their bugs/log messages etc. When they are happy with their testing, they check out the code and merge it into RTB as they normally do, reducing the amount of time the object is check out. The PROPATH for the PASOE instance has the main dev code base in it, as well as a users "personal" lab directory, where they can put code that only they will have access to, and test within the main code base. We facilitate this through the "Classic" GUI UI, creating a Lab task, with a share status of Task/Group/Central, and a Directory of the personal lab directory. But .. it fails on the PASOE RTB interface. This allows objects to be checked out in labs, but only into the task directory, not the users lab directory. The PASOE interface also does not expose the share directory to be changed or overridden. The problem is now, for every task we create, we need to add that task into the PROPATH of the PASOE agent, so it picks up those LAB changes. This is becoming a logistical problem. So, the question is, can the Labs in PASOE mirror the pathing used in RTB GUI , so we can check out objects into a lab area, that is at the top of the PROPATH known by our PASOE instance? Regards, Mark.

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