Versioning and branches within Flare

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Versioning and branches within Flare

Post by royj »

I'm starting to learn about creating versions and managing branches with source-control, and I'd like to apply some of these concepts within Flare. But so far, I can't quite suss out how to do the following:
  • Tagging my project and content files as a specific version
    Creating a branch for maintenance updates of older documentation versions
Are these actions I can do in Flare, or do I need to do them in MSTFS (our source code repository)?
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Re: Versioning and branches within Flare

Post by forfear »

We use Team Foundation Server source control.

The short answer...use Team Explorer(Visual Studio), to label, branch your code. Not in Madcap Flare/Blaze.


May i also recommend you to use this plugin (Team Foundation Sidekicks)
if you are not already using it, http://www.attrice.info/cm/tfs/

Recommended use even by Microsoft TF evangelists to circumvent limitations with v1.0

Enhances how TFS 1.0 shows labelled/history items. If you had used Visual Source Safe 6.0d/2005 to show history/labels before you'll know what i mean.
If you submit your bug feedback request here, the more likely it'll get fixed or included in a future release
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