Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Eclipse plug-in is a Team provider plug-in for the Eclipse IDE. It enables users to perform Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted operations from within the Eclipse IDE. This plug-in supports Eclipse release 3.x.
Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Eclipse plug-in can be used on various operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Solaris , Mac, etc.
Note: JDK version 1.4.2.8 or above is needed to use Dynamsoft SAW Hosted Eclipse plug-in.
The installation procedure is as follows:
Or you can download the SourceAnywhere Hosted Eclipse plug-in from the download page of SourceAnywhere Hosted, and on the 3rd step above, click New Archived Site and browse to the SourceAnywhere Hosted Eclipse Plug-in.
Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted plug-in works on a per Eclipse project basis. Each project in your workspace can be configured separately and can mount a Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Repository.
1. Configure a team provider for your project.
Right click an Eclipse project and select Team -> Share Project to bring up the select repository wizard.
2. Select Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted as the repository type.
3. Input the general information to login Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted server.
Login Info Panel
Type the organization ID that is part of your hosted service account identity.
Type the user name, which must be configured on the Users tab of Server Manager.
Type the password. Check Remember Password checkbox if you'd like the password of the user to be filled automatically at each login.
Check this box if the client connects to the hosted server directly without using cache servers.
Use SSL
If this box is checked, the client will connect to the secure port of hosted server using SSL encryption.
If you have SourceAnywhere Hosted cache servers deployed at the client side, check this box and the client will connect to the hosted server through your cache server.
Type the IP or domain name of your cache server.
Type the port of your cache server.
Profile Panel
Profile
Select the profile to apply the pre-configured login information to the Login
Info panel. Each profile saves the information that is required for all the
items within Login Info panel. You may create any profile if needed with Java
GUI Client.
4. Input the additional information to login Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted server.
Type or select the default repository to log in. If this field is left blank, the client will prompt you the Repositories dialog box after successful connection to the hosted server. Clicking Select Repository button will bring up the Repositories dialog box.
If the default repository is specified, the Repositories dialog box will be skipped at each login.
Note: Before setting the default repository please input the necessary information in General tab first.
Select the proxy type: None, Socks4, Socks5 or Http.
Type the IP or name of the proxy server, if Socks4, Socks5 or Http is selected as the proxy type.
Port
Type the port of the proxy server, if Socks4, Socks5 or Http is selected as the proxy type.
Type the proxy username.
Type the proxy password.
5. Path Mapping
Local
Displays the path to the local workspace of the Eclipse project.
Remote
Type the path of the Eclipse project in Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Repository.
Browse
Click to bring up the Add to Dynamsoft SAW Hosted project dialog. You can
select an existing Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted project or create a new
one.
6. Your project is now configured for using Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Plug-in.
Now if you right click context menu on the project and select Team, you will see some additional Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted plug-in functions.
Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted plug-in actions are also available from the main menu and toolbar if Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Plug-in menu and shortcuts is enabled. The actions will be invoked on the current active editor or the current selection if there is no active editor.
The context menu option will vary depending on the status of the file. If an option isn't available, but it should be, always try to do a refresh and see what happens.
All errors within the plug-in can be viewed by clicking Window menu > Show View > Error Log or in the Eclipse log-file located at (your workspace)\.metadata\.log.
1. Basic Functions
Get Latest Version: Gets the latest version from Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Repository. If a writable copy exists of a file the user is prompted if
the local copy should be replaced.
Refresh Status: Updates the checkout status of an item.
Check Out: Checks out the item from Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Repository. If a
writable copy exists of a file the user is prompted if the local copy
should be replaced.
Check In: Checks the item with changes into Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Repository.
Undo Checkout: Gives
up the changes (if any). The user will be
prompted if the file is changed. All affected files corresponding editors will be reverted after
the undo.
Label Item: Assigns a label to the item.
History: Displays the history information of a file.
This function is only available on files.
History Options
Allows you to specify the date range or user for filtering the file history.
History Of File
View
Displays the content of the file with the default editor.
Details
Displays the details of the selected history item of the file, including the version number, date, user, label, etc.
Get
Gets the file to your workspace.
Diff
You can compare the selected version of the file with the local copy in workspace, or to any other version of the file. To compare two different versions of a file, hold down the Ctrl key while selecting the two versions of interest. Then click the Diff button.
Property: Displays the
property of a file containing the
basic information of the file. This function is only available on
files.
Remove From Repository: Removes the item from Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Repository.
Add: Adds the item to Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Repository.
Compare With Latest: Compares the local file with the latest
version of the file in Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Repository.
Deconfig Project: Removes Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted plug-in from the project. This operation will not remove the project from Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Repository. Available on the project root folder.
For more details about the basic functions of Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted plug-in, please
refer to the help file of Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted.
2. View Status Messages
Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Message window displays the status message of Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted. To enable the window, select Window ->Show View -> Other -> Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted.
3. Customizing Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted plug-in
Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted options can be found under Window -> Preferences -> Team -> Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Option.
For information on each item of Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted plug-in options, please refer to the CHM help file of Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted.
4. Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted Plug-in menu and shortcuts
To enable Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Hosted plug-in menu and shortcuts, select Window -> Customize Perspective.
Shortcuts
Commands
5. Label Decorations
To enable status showing for each item in the project, select Window -> Preferences -> Workbench -> Label Decorations.