Vault Customization Hooks

[Scott Prugh]

What type of customization hooks does Vault support? Currently we hook the SourceSafe automtation model in the front end during file Checkins with an ActiveX control. We do this to prompt the developer for checkin information like incident number to populate our incident tracking system.

We are looking to replace SS, but we cannot replace our incident system easily. So, we would like to just rewrite the same hooks in SGV.

Is this possible? If so, can someone outline how it would be done??

Thanks,
-Scott Prugh

[jclausius]

Scott - There is a plugin model for Vault. It is covered in this recent posting - http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?t=3622 ( which has another link to Jeremy Sheeley's blog posting regarding Vault plugins - http://weblogs.asp.net/jeremy_sheeley/a ... 04/07.aspx )

[Scott Prugh]

This appears to be server side.

Is there anyway to hook into the client side? I need to prompt the user for incident info on the checkin.

Any ideas??

[jclausius]

The only thing you can do right now is configure the Vault client to require a comment.

In Vault 3.1, you will also have the capability to require a item/bug ID with the check in.


Where would you want the user to enter an incident number?

[Scott Prugh]

We would like to be able to pop-up a winform from the front-end client. In Sourcesafe, you can hook many of the events in the object model by placing a ProgId in the ssaddin.ini file in the SS win32 directory.

During the OnCheckin event, we display a form and require input of incident info.

I would like to be able to do the same thing in SGV so that we can preserve our incident tracking system.

Can this be done?

[jclausius]

Sorry, this is not currently available.

If you like, I can create a Request for Enhancement for this feature.

[Scott Prugh]

Please enter an ER for this. Thanks.

[jclausius]

No problem.