PRB: SourceSafe/MS Access Does Not Allow Project Sharing

 Last reviewed: March 28, 1997
Article ID: Q162820
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Access 97
  • Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 32-bit, for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multi-user skills.

This article assumes that you are familiar with using the client and server side capabilities of Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. For more information about Visual SourceSafe, please refer to the "Visual SourceSafe User's Guide" or the Help topics available from the Visual SourceSafe menu.

Visual SourceSafe allows sharing of projects among developers so that a team of individuals can make changes and share application development.

The ability to share projects is not enabled by default when you set up the server components for SourceSafe. You must explicitly enabled this functionality.

If you try to check out a project that another developer has checked out and the Allow Multiple Checkouts option has not been enabled in SourceSafe, you may receive the following error message: 

   File $/<file name> is currently checked out by <user name>
-or-

The Check Out option on the SourceSafe Integration menu may be dimmed and unavailable. This behavior indicates that the SourceSafe server application has not been configured to allow project sharing.

RESOLUTION

To allow project sharing, configure the server hosting the SourceSafe application to allow multiple checkouts.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

To allow project sharing, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Administration Tool on the server that hosts the Visual SourceSafe database.

  2. Sign in with your admin password.

  3. On the Tools menu, click Options.

  4. Click to select the Allow Multiple Checkouts option.

    NOTE: In order to apply the change, all client applications will have to be quit and restarted.

Keywords : kbinterop ssacc ssint
Version : 97
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : X86
Issue type : kberrmsg

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Last reviewed: March 28, 1997
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