Good news and other news on the SVN front

[Rodney]

Some good news and some so so news here regarding a workflow for quickly moving resources from SVN directories into A:M.

Uploading to SVN is an easy process... Just Commit (A:M will ask if you want to save)... so Save, and A:M will update SVN.

(Note: You don't have to save for the Commit to work but you might as well.)

 

Long ago I attempted to get a workflow of dragging and dropping Models from SVN directories into A:M but A:M generally wants to open the Model or other resource rather than drop it into the Chor, Action or whatever.

 

I did find a workaround and I have confirmed that it still works in current release.

 

1. Using the A:M Community window I set up a html page (using frames) that opens the SVN directory.

2. Navigating to the resource (the html windows can have multiple directors open simultaneously) you grab simply grab the resourcet and Drag and Drop -first- into a transitory folder set up in a Library

3. Immediately drag and drop that resource from Library into the Chor or Action.

 

For lack of better terminology I'm calling this process Ping/Pong because you ping the resource into the Library and then immediately pong it into the target area.

It takes a few seconds whereas before the process could take minutes using File Open or Importing depending on where the resource is.

This process has the added benefit of documenting everything you've added from SVN by its presence in the Library (and that info can be useful and leveraged as well) Of course you can then organize the Libraries any way you wish.

 

An alternate way to do this would be to drag and drop from the SVN folder itself (in the operating system) but then you'd have to have that window open along with A:M. By having the SVN directory open in the Community window the workflow is entirely accomplished within A:M.

 

In other news... the use of SVN is awesome!

We really should set up an A:M Extras to collect and distribute community resources via SVN.

[Ilidrake]

I agree. This would be a great boon to the community.