Using Visual Paradigm Teamwork Server

Written Date: September 2, 2010
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Teamwork Server provides a repository for you to store project files of your team. Team members can checkout project(s) from server, start working and commit/update changes to/from server.

In this page, we will demonstrate a basic workflow of team collaboration with Teamwork Server. The server administrator and two members, John and Mary, will take part in the project.

Server side - Set-up

1. Download the zip file of Teamwork Server.
2. Extract the zip file to somewhere in your machine.
   
3. Execute VPTeamworkServer\scripts\startup.bat
4. Open the web browser and visit http://127.0.0.1:1999/
5. Enter a new password and specify the name of your organization. Click Confirm.
   
6. In the License Key section, supply the path of teamwork evaluation/purchased license key.
   
7. Click Install.
8. In the Users section, click Add User.
   
9. Fill in the Add User page. Name this user as john. John will be creating a project in the server. Check Create Project in the Permissions section. Click Update User.
   
10. Add another user mary. Do not check any permission. In the Users section you can see the two users listed.
    

Client side - Project creation

1. John, another person, starts VP-UML in his desktop.
2. Click on Team in the toolbar, and select Open Teamwork Client...
   
3. Enter the connection information. Login as john. Click OK.
   
4. When the Manage Project dialog box appears, click OK to continue.
5. In the Teamwork Client dialog box, select Project > Import Project to Repository from the menu.
   
6. In the Import Project dialog box, enter Sample Project to be the project name.
   
7. At the bottom of the dialog box, select mary from the list of available user and click Add as Read and Update.
   
8. Click OK.
9. Click Open Project at the bottom right of Teamwork Client dialog box.
   

Client side - Checkout, commit and update

1. Mary, another team member, starts VP-UML in another machine.
2. Click on Team in the toolbar, and select Open Teamwork Client... from the drop down menu.
3. Enter the connection information. Login as mary.
   
4. In the Manage Project dialog box, select the project and click >.
   
5. At the bottom right corner of Manage Project dialog box, click Open Project.
   
6. Draw a simple class diagram.
   
7. Click on Team in the toolbar, and select Commit... from the drop down menu.
   
8. Click OK in the Commit dialog box.
   
9. Now, go back to John's machine. Click on Team in the toolbar, and select Update from the drop down menu.
   
10. In the Update dialog box, click OK.
    
11. Open the class diagram. John can read the work done and committed by Mary.