Task Tracking on Independent Systems
If your Visual LANSA System is an Independent System, it can directly maintain its own LANSA System definition data including task details. The following rules will apply:
- All Task IDs will be created and maintained directly in Visual LANSA.
- There are fewer settings required for Independent Visual LANSA systems because a distributed development environment is not used (i.e. there are no slave repositories). There is no need for any form of repository synchronization. (Refer to 6.3.1 Repository Synchronization Concepts.)
- All partition and other task tracking settings are set up in Visual LANSA. (Refer to Task Tracking Partition Settings.)
- Check-in unlocking is not relevant as this is not a distributed development model. (Refer to Unlock Objects in Task Tracking.)
- Object locking should be turned on in Visual LANSA. For example, it is the only method that guarantees that two developers cannot edit an object concurrently. (Refer to 6.1.1 Object Locking Concepts .)
- The partition security officer and partition owner has special authorities. Refer to Special Authorities and Task Tracking.
- You cannot use the Special Task Ids. (Refer to Set Special Task ID.) Hence, you typically use a Full Task-Oriented Tracking or a Minimum Tracking.
- Task tracking is typically required with Visual LANSA server configurations where multiple developers are sharing a single repository.
If you have a single user independent workstation, minimal task tracking may be required as you are not sharing the repository with other developers. However, you may still wish to use Task IDs when objects are being deployed to other Visual LANSA Systems.
Also See
Task Tracking in Master/Slave Systems
6.2.2 Approaches for using Task Tracking