How to share files
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Team Coherence supports the concept of Virtual Archives. A Virtual Archive is an archive that contains no information or revisions, but simply points to the actual archive. A Virtual Archive becomes part of the Project it is contained by, so can be viewed and acted upon as if it was part of that project. There can be any number of Virtual Archives pointing to the same archive and all changes to the Virtual Archive are applied to all other copies.

There are two ways to share a file in Team Coherence:

Copy & Paste

1) Select the files and/or folders you want to share and select Edit / Copy from the main menu. This copies the objects to the clipboard.

2) Select the folder that you want to place the shared files and select Edit / Paste from the main menu.

3) If you answer Yes to the confirmation prompt, new Virtual Archives will be placed in the selected folder.

Drag Drop

1) Select the objects you want to share in the Files pane and start dragging them.

2) As you are dragging the objects, press and hold down the Ctrl key.

3) Drop the objects on the folder where you want to place the shared files.


Shared files display using an extra icon (sharedimg) to show that the file is shared.

shared  

The root of the share is displayed using an extra icon (sharedrootimg) to show that the file is the root (original) copy of the file:

shareroot  

Selecting a shared file in the folder pane will display the details of the actual archive.

Now, when you baseline your project, or get the latest version, etc, it will include the shared file.

notes Note that the Virtual Archive will use the default working path of the folder that contains it.  

 


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