Facilitate creating a new workspace
When you create a new workspace, Plastic SCM 5.4.16.654 Palencia fills in the Workspace Name and Path on disk fields automatically. It is easier now to create a workspace than it was in previous versions.
However, I would go a bit further. Firstly, the default 'path on disk' could be configurable or PlasticSCM could remember the parent directory of the last used folder and suggest it later on instead of the 'Drive:\Users\UserName\wkspaces\' path which is currently suggested as the base.
Secondly, when you click the 'Browse' button next to the 'path on disk', the folder selection dialog should navigate to the specified path, because it does not do it now. It is helpful when you paste a path and want to select its subfolder using the browse for folder dialog.
Hi Mario,
First of all, we’d like to thank you for your interest in Plastic and your feedback :)
Regarding your first issue, we decided to include a new setting inside the guiclient.conf file. This will allow you and other users to set the default workspace parent path, instead of using what you noticed: <Drive>:\Users\<username>\wkspaces. To do so, you’d just need to add a line in the guiclient.conf file (inside the <GuiClientConfigData> tag) as follows:
<DefaultWorkspaceRoot>C:\path\to\your\workspaces\root</DefaultWorkspaceRoot>
Once restarted, the GUI dialog should use this path as default.
About the second issue, the functionality you mention should be in place, but it seems there is a problem with the scroll on the browsing dialog. The written path (or its first existing parent) is actually selected, but the scroll neither moves to display it nor highlights it. We’ll look into this problem and we’ll release a fix ASAP.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if these instructions are not completely clear to you, or if you have more suggestions.
Thank you!
Regards,
Miguel
EDIT: There was a mistake in the original message! The affected file (where you’ll find the new DefaultWorkspaceRoot attribute) is guiclient.conf instead of client.conf. Sorry for the inconveniences!
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Göran Wallgren commented
Follow-up uservoice posted here:
http://plasticscm.uservoice.com/forums/15467-general/suggestions/10300338-remember-last-entered-path-for-workspace -
Mariusz Schimke commented
@Jan: Confirmed. I observed the same behaviour.
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Jan commented
This doesn't work for me, the line is removed on client startup.
PlasticSCM 5.4.16.663 - Yaguate -
Mariusz Schimke commented
Great, thanks!