Versioning Files but keeping modification status

currently when you submit a file and it is added to the staging the modification status is changes so when you select "My Modified Files" the ones that were submitted won't show up in the list. Do to this feature alot of our developers don't submit files till the last minute. This causes problems with properly versioning the files for backup purposed.

I want to create a workflow that will submit the file(s) to staging but also keep them in a modified state so they show up in the "My Modified list"

Anyone on any suggestions on how I can do this

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nipper

assuming you never worry about merging, this should work

BTW, Unix or DOS.

Start an external process to do a Unix touch command (or cygwin for DOS)

You could also set an Extended Attribute on the file, though I *think* there is a setting in either iw.cfg or the UI as to whether modified attributes show up as modifed code.

Finally if you are on DOS and do not have cygwin, you can write a perl process that will open, read and write to a file. Be warned. Someone did that on my project & all of a sudden we had thousands of 0 length DCRs. It was rather humorous (if you like laughing at someone else's discomfort). Smiley Very Happy

HTH

Andy

Adam Stoller

assuming you never worry about merging, this should work

BTW, Unix or DOS.

Start an external process to do a Unix touch command (or cygwin for DOS)

You could also try something like this:

#!/...../iw-perl/bin/iwperl
use strict;
use warnings;
...
sub touch_files{
    my $file_list = shift;
    my $ntime = time;
    utime($ntime, $ntime, @{$file_list});
}
...

See perldoc -f utime for more details.

Note: You'll want to make sure that the externaltask is owned by the user for whom you want these files to be listed as modified (depending on what version of TS you are using - I believe some of them suffer on Windows by making all externaltasks run by SYSTEM - if that's the case, you may need to use a cgitask and put the above into a CGI program that's run through iw_cgi_wrapper.cgi)