2 Replies Latest reply: Apr 3, 2014 12:12 AM by peter_h RSS

    map id file (project.ali) in source countrol

    peter_h Community Member
    peter_h Mar 28, 2014 2:43 AM

      When editing the map IDs of a topic, then the order of the map id's in the project.ali file is always changed. When using source control, this often generates conflicts, because a merge isn't easily done. Is it possible to leave the order of the ids in the ali file as it is?

        • 1. Re: map id file (project.ali) in source countrol
          Willam van Weelden CommunityMVP
          Willam van Weelden Apr 1, 2014 1:36 AM (in response to peter_h)

          No way that I know of. But can't you just override the server version of

          the file with the local file?

           

          Kind regards,

           

          Willam

          • 2. Re: map id file (project.ali) in source countrol
            peter_h Community Member
            peter_h Apr 3, 2014 12:12 AM (in response to Willam van Weelden)

            Well, I don't think that that would help.

            The odd thing is that the order of the ids in the ali file are the same for all the even commits, and for the odd commits. The change of order is done by robohelp, so overriding the server version cannot help? Unless I did not correctly understand what you mean.

             

            for example: Let's say that the ali file initially contains this ids:

             

            -ID1

            -ID2

            -ID3

             

            when adding a id, the order could now look like this:

            -ID2

            -ID4

            -ID3

            -ID1

             

            When adding a fifth id, the order of the first 3 are now the same as in the beginning. The location of the 4th and the 5th seem random:

             

            -ID1

            -ID2

            -ID4

            -ID3

            -ID5

             

             

            When adding a sixth id, the order of the first 4 are now the same as in the second situation. The location of the 5th and the 6th seem random:

             

            -ID2

            -ID4

            -ID5

            -ID3

            -ID6

            -ID1

             

            This happens when using a version control system or not, so this is probably a unwanted behaviour of robohelp?

             

            We off course have to take into account that multiple users can change the ali file at the same time and because of the order changes, a difficult merge conflict often happens because of that.