Checking In, Uploading, and Downloading Activities 

Use

Activities “contain“ versions of resources. The following actions are available for open activities:

·        If you don't want the state of your activity to be visible to others (because it's not finished yet and therefore could disturb other developers), but still want it to be safely stored in the server, you use the upload function. The activity is stored in the database, but is still in the open state.

·        If you want to have some content from the server available locally, use the download function. To do this, you must have used Upload before to store the version on the server; otherwise choose Sync.

You have checked out and edited a file and the activity is still open. To save those versions in the activity that are almost finished, you made an upload.

Now you are told that a change must be made and you make this change (still in the same activity). Later, these changes prove to be unnecessary. You can now simply download the last state of the upload and continue your work with this state.

·        When you check in an activity, its content is stored in the server. The new version of the resource becomes visible to other users. The activity is closed.

 

Prerequisites

You are working in the Eclipse client of the DTR and are connected to the DTR server.

You have open activities.

Uploading Activities

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To upload an activity, in the context menu of this activity choose Upload.

You can use Forced Upload to force the upload if necessary.

Downloading Activities

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To download an activity, in the context menu of an activity choose Download.

The local contents are overwritten by the contents of the activity.

Checking In Activities

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       1.      To check in an activity, in the context menu of this activity choose Check in.

A dialog window Describe Activity appears.

       2.      Update the description or the name of the activity, if necessary.

       3.      Choose OK.

The new version of the resource is stored on the server and the activity is closed.