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Best way to share TBC files with co workers

  • 1.  Best way to share TBC files with co workers

    Posted 03-11-2019 06:48
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    We are having a problem with a customer saving projects on their network servers. I was wondering what is the recommended way to share projects in order for coworkers to work on the same projects. I also was lead to believe it was safe to save files on a server then co worker could grab that same files from the server. Recently one of customers had all of the files become corrupt while trying to open their files from the server.

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  • 2.  Re: Best way to share TBC files with co workers

    Posted 03-11-2019 10:45

    Travis,

       We save and run almost all of our files on a network server.  However, we have seen issues of files becoming corrupted as you've mentioned and have isolated the issue to network latency/speed.  There are a couple of different ways you could possibly work around this but, it will take effective communication on the project team level or additional cost to fix network speeds.

     

    1. Export the file as a .vcl and let each user import the "newest" version into a local TBC file and export a new .vcl when finished.

    2. Use the TBC Archive project command and upload the zipped file to the network location.

    3.  Have a local computer/external drive set up as a local network.  This will eliminate most latency issues.  It all depends on the size of the sites they are working on and network locations, from what we have seen.

     

    Regards,

     

    Nate



  • 3.  Re: Best way to share TBC files with co workers

    Posted 03-12-2019 04:55

    My company use the TCC to store our projects, works seamlessly with the save file remotely and open remote files commands within business center.

     

    I would always say that immediately after opening a remote file I save it locally, as it seems to improve performance, also some import/export tasks can't be done without a local save.

     

    The only thing with this is there is no way to tell if somebody else is working on the same drawing at the same time as you will never be using the same iteration of the file.

     

    As long as 2 people are not working on the project in parallel this works fine.

     

    If 2 people are working in parallel you would need one of them to transfer their created objects via a VCL Project Link Export before the file is saved.



  • 4.  Re: Best way to share TBC files with co workers

    Posted 03-13-2019 16:22

    I have asked QA to look at this issue to resolve what is going on here

     

    Alan



  • 5.  Re: Best way to share TBC files with co workers

    Posted 03-26-2019 20:42

    Alan,

     

    I was just checking to see if you have any update on what may be causing this issue. Many of our customers are saving their files to their servers, with no problems. I would hate to have this customer switch the way they are saving files, to later find out it may have been an easy fix. Thank you for your help. 



  • 6.  Re: Best way to share TBC files with co workers

    Posted 03-27-2019 06:15

    I know the team was looking at this last week in depth - I have not heard

    if they found a problem - I will try to find out today Travis - I know we

    hope to have a fix for this in the next release or patch whichever comes

    first

     

    Alan

     

    On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 9:43 PM Travis.Patrow@zieglercat.com <