Multi-User Collaborative Development
The software platform provides several tools and components to support industrial automation projects' development, deployment, and management, ensuring productivity, collaboration, tracking, visibility, and end-to-end quality.
Multi-User Collaborative Development is a feature that enables multiple users to work on the same project simultaneously, allowing real-time collaboration and coordination between team members.
Benefits
Multi-User Collaborative Development is a valuable tool for teams working on industrial automation and control systems, improving the development process's speed, quality, and efficiency. Engineering users can configure the server project as workstations that are attached to the network instead of having to work on the server itself. As long as the developers are on the same network, they can access their projects, keeping the server safer by reducing the number of people who need to log into it.
This feature also allows developers to use a central shared repository and edit a project even remotely (not logged into the project server itself).
Improved productivity
By allowing multiple users to work on the same project simultaneously, Multi-User Collaborative Development increases the speed and efficiency of the development process.
Better collaboration
Teams can work together more effectively and share information and ideas in real time, leading to improved teamwork and coordination.
Enhanced version control
Version control capabilities that make it easy to track changes, revert to previous versions, and merge changes made by different users.
Increased visibility
With Multi-User Collaborative Development, team members have a clear view of what others are working on and can better understand the project's status as a whole.
Improved quality
By allowing frequent testing and feedback, Multi-User Collaborative Development can lead to higher quality and more robust systems.
Requirements
The computers must have the software platform installed and licensed. To check if you match the requirements, follow the steps below.
Licensing Server Verification
1. Open the Project Management screen and click Your License.
2. The Engineering Users field shows the amount of concurrent engineering users that are supported by the current license.
3. On the Project Server interface (Project Management → Find Projects), set the Project Server to http://localhost, instead of Local (Direct local file access, not using Project Server)
It is not possible to edit a project locally and remotely at the same time. If this occurs, anyone that remotely connects to the Project will view the project as ReadOnly. For multiple engineering users to edit the same project, the project server must also be connected to itself.
WebServer Service Verification
Check if the WebServer service is running on both local and remote computers using the procedure described at Service Verification.
Project Runtime
The platform provides all of tools and components that help you to develop, deploy, and run your automation projects, and to monitor their behavior and performance.
See Running Projects for complete documentation.
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