Team Development Using Independent Repositories
If your team cannot set up a shared repository as recommended in Sharing a Repository, it is still possible for multiple developers to create assets using independent repositories. However, if developers use independent repositories, they will need to merge the assets that they have individually created.
The easiest way to merge assets (if developers cannot share a common working repository) is to set up a common remote repository into which developers can deploy assets. See Configuring a Repository to set up a remote repository in Style Studio, and see Deploying a Report, Data Source, or Other Asset for instructions on how to save assets into this remote repository. For example, each developer can define a connection from their own Style Studio installation to a common “server-type” remote repository. When individual developers deploy their assets into that common remote repository, the assets will be automatically merged.
If it is not possible for developers to use either a common working repository or a common remote repository, they can merge assets from their independent repositories into a single deployment repository by exporting to a JAR file, as described below.
To merge assets from multiple independent repositories into a single deployment repository, follow the steps below:
1. Each developer should deploy the assets they have created into an independent JAR file. (See Deploying a Report or Asset to a JAR File.)
2. Move these JAR files to a location that is accessible to the desired deployment repository.
3. Import and merge the assets from the JAR files into the deployment repository:
a. To do this from within Style Studio, see Importing Assets from a JAR File.
b. To do this from within Enterprise Manager, see Importing Assets in Administration Reference.
This merges the assets into the deployment repository. To synchronize the independent developer repositories with the common deployment repository, you can use the same approach in reverse: Export a JAR with the desired assets from the deployment repository, and import the JAR contents into the individual developer repositories. (See Importing Assets from a JAR File.)
See Also
Incremental Deployment of Assets, in Administration Reference, for information on deploying assets.
Deploying a Report, Data Source, or Other Asset, for more information on live deployment.
Configuring a Repository, for information on specifying the repository location.
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