We had the same question about UCM and documents. Our solution was to have
documents in their own vob and NOT have that vob under UCM. It means they
have to use a special view for that vob and below is the config spec we use.
It limits the view to only one vob, NSPW.
# NSPW Only view
# created 3/30/00 brp
element /NSPW/... CHECKEDOUT
element /NSPW/... /main/Draft_1/Review_1/LATEST
element /NSPW/... /main/Draft_1/LATEST -mkbranch Review_1
element /NSPW/.../*.mpp /main/LATEST -mkbranch Draft_1
element /NSPW/.../*.ppt /main/LATEST -mkbranch Draft_1
element /NSPW/.../*.xls /main/LATEST -mkbranch Draft_1
element /NSPW/.../*.cat /main/LATEST -mkbranch Draft_1
element /NSPW/.../*.mdl /main/LATEST -mkbranch Draft_1
element /NSPW/.../*.doc /main/LATEST -mkbranch Draft_1
element /NSPW/... /main/LATEST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cciug@rational.com [mailto:owner-cciug@rational.comOn
> Behalf Of Couball, James
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 11:41 AM
> To: 'cciug@rational.com'
> Subject: [cciug] UCM: good for some artifacts, bad for others?
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am using ClearCase UCM (w/o ClearQuest integration at the moment) in an
> environment where we previously used SourceSafe. I am running up
> against a
> usability issue I was hoping that someone could help me with.
>
> It is early in the project and there are a lot of documents being
> shared by
> the develolpment team. They used to use SourceSafe to share the
> documents.
> This was easy for them: just check it in and the next person can get it.
> Now that we have moved to ClearCase using UCM, one person must
> deliver their
> changes, someone must baseline the delivered changes, and then the
> interested parties must rebase their development stream. It
> strikes me that
> I am not using UCM or ClearCase correctly if it is so hard to do this.
> People will make mistakes.
>
> I think that this is particularly the case for management documents. For
> instance, you don't usually go through a change management process for
> changes made to the project plan -- right?
>
> How do others use ClearCase UCM for managing these types of documents in a
> way that makes it easy for people make small changes and share the results
> with others? Maybe these type of documents shouldn't be stored using UCM?
>
> Sincerely,
> James.
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