Workspace Synchronization in Productstream 2009

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  Workspace Synchronization in Productstream 2009
  March 26, 2008, 10:36 PM Brian Schanen

  The new Workspace Synchronization feature reduces the need to manually manage the local workspace at each user’s machine. This feature compares the contents of a user’s Workspace against the contents of the corresponding vault. The command supports two primary operations; first downloading and updating out of date files and removing files that fall within the expiration rules.

   

  Workspace Synch and Quick Synch

  Two options for Workspace cleanup are available; the primary interface uses the Workspace Synchronization Wizard to provide full user interaction with the options as well as the ability to override its defaults. 

  

  The secondary interface is Quick Sync and will simply run the command without any user interaction accepting the defaults based on the previously configured settings.

  

  Options and Settings

  The Workspace Sync feature allows you to configure the different rules desired on a per user basis. The following rules can be applied: removing temporary files per extension, expiration rules for managed (in Productstream) and unmanaged files (not yet in Productstream) as well as the ability to set up exclusions. Additionally these rules can be stored in an XML file and shared out to other members of the design team.

  

  Command line support

  Most of the time, this command is invoked by the user. However, if there is a desire to automate the process, perhaps at the beginning of each day, command line support has been added. The following syntax can be used to run the process:

  

  -Brian Schanen

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  April 18, 2008 09:11 AM Craig Moore

  Since our CAD work is mainly civil engineering projects, we use Vault to manage our design documents. One of our problems with Vault is the inability to automatically synchronize the work space (local/client folder) with the server. The Workspace Synchronization tool in Product Stream seems like a great addition. This concept would be extremely helpful for our workflow. Do you know if there are plans to add such a tool to Vault?