How t share .cpf file between the developers?

[biswasarijit84]

Hi,

I am new to cognos. I just want to know say i build a FM Model (model1).  Another developer sitting in some other location how will he open the same model and can do the edit in the same model (model1)?

Like Business Objects is there option in Cognos where i can export the model to the server and another person can import the same model and can to the editing.?

[blom0344]

The model consists of a complete set of files (xml's, a .cpf, logs) We take the entire set and store it in a version control system (in our case VSS) The version control system allows for storing different increments and allows checking out of the model.
In BO everything is stored in the .unv file which is stored centrally. Cognos unfortunately works a bit
different.

[biswasarijit84]

I got it. But plz let me know how the .cpf file will be shared between them? it should be some thing where they can import and export the .cpf file.

[blom0344]

It is not just the .cpf  The model.xml contains the actual metadata. Importing/Exporting is best handled by a version control system. Framework manager is a client tool. It does not follow the Webbased reports that are stored locally in the content store.

[MMcBride]

Something we use here is that the Framework Manager Models are actually on a shared file system.

We have a small group of Developers but we are spread all over the Country from New York to Seattle, so we have a set of folders that are shared to all members and we create models in this shared environment.

External Version control software would make it safer but we communicate with each other fairly well and let each other know when we are in a model.

If you don't have a common folder you can share you can simply copy all the files in your target directory like blom0344 mentioned but you will need to impliment a process of keeping the "Latest Source" some where.

I am betting that you do have access to a shared folder and can use that, without version control check in and check out though you have to be careful when multiple people are working on the same Model.

[blom0344]

8.3 introduced the branching and merging of FM projects. Never took the chance to work my way through it, but this also seems to involve a 3-party source control system. FM help has pretty extensive information about this feature.
(By the way, does anyone know why FM canned documentation is so much better than the truly meaningless help you get from within , say, Report Studio  ??   :-\ )