The software platform provides several tools and features to support industrial automation Solutions' development, deployment, and management, ensuring productivity, collaboration, tracking, visibility, and end-to-end quality. Multi-User Collaborative Development refers to the feature that enables multiple users to work on the same Solution simultaneously, allowing real-time collaboration and coordination between team members.
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Multi-User Collaborative Development
The software platform provides several tools and components to support industrial automation Solutions' development, deployment, and management, ensuring productivity, collaboration, tracking, visibility, and end-to-end quality.
Benefits
Multi-User Collaborative Development is a tool for teams working on industrial automation and control systems, improving the development process's speed, quality, and efficiency. Engineering users can configure the server Solution as workstations that are attached to the network instead of having to work on the server itself. As long as the developers are on the same network, they can access their Solutions, keeping the server safer by reducing the number of people who need to log into it.
This feature also allows developers to use a central shared repository and edit a Solution even remotely (not logged into the Solution server itself).
Improved productivity
By allowing multiple users to work on the same Solution simultaneously, Multi-User Collaborative Development increases the speed and efficiency of the development process.
Better collaboration
Teams can work together more effectively and share information and ideas in real time, leading to improved teamwork and coordination.
Enhanced version control
Version control capabilities that make it easy to track changes, revert to previous versions, and merge changes made by different users.
Increased visibility
With Multi-User Collaborative Development, team members have a clear view of what others are working on and can better understand the Solution's status as a whole.
Improved quality
By allowing frequent testing and feedback, Multi-User Collaborative Development can lead to higher quality and more robust systems.
Requirements
The computers must have the software platform installed and licensed. To check if you match the requirements, follow the steps below.
Licensing Server Verification
1. Open the Solution Management screen and click Your License.
2. The Engineering Users field shows the amount of concurrent engineering users that are supported by the current license.
3. On the Solution Server interface (Solution Management → Find Solutions), set the Solution Server to http://localhost, instead of Local (Direct local file access, not using Solution Server)
It is not possible to edit a Solution locally and remotely at the same time. If this occurs, anyone that remotely connects to the Solution will view the Solution as ReadOnly. For multiple engineering users to edit the same Solution, the Solution server must also be connected to itself.
WebServer Service Verification
Check if the WebServer service is running on both local and remote computers using the procedure described at Service Verification.
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