map id file (project.ali) in source countrol

[Cerm Medewerker]

When editing the map IDs of a topic, then the order of the map id's in the project.ali file is always changed. When using source control, this often generates conflicts, because a merge isn't easily done. Is it possible to leave the order of the ids in the ali file as it is?

[Willam van Weelden]

No way that I know of. But can't you just override the server version of

the file with the local file?

Kind regards,

Willam

[Cerm Medewerker]

Well, I don't think that that would help.

The odd thing is that the order of the ids in the ali file are the same for all the even commits, and for the odd commits. The change of order is done by robohelp, so overriding the server version cannot help? Unless I did not correctly understand what you mean.

for example: Let's say that the ali file initially contains this ids:

-ID1

-ID2

-ID3

when adding a id, the order could now look like this:

-ID2

-ID4

-ID3

-ID1

When adding a fifth id, the order of the first 3 are now the same as in the beginning. The location of the 4th and the 5th seem random:

-ID1

-ID2

-ID4

-ID3

-ID5

When adding a sixth id, the order of the first 4 are now the same as in the second situation. The location of the 5th and the 6th seem random:

-ID2

-ID4

-ID5

-ID3

-ID6

-ID1

This happens when using a version control system or not, so this is probably a unwanted behaviour of robohelp?

We off course have to take into account that multiple users can change the ali file at the same time and because of the order changes, a difficult merge conflict often happens because of that.