Re: No CheckOut history ? Urgent...

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From: Joe Masters (joe.masters_at_dontspamme.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:26:17 -0800

You could turn on journaling. Check the help file. It can log checkout
actions.

Joe

"jcraigue" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F1BD9717-11F8-44E1-A718-A18895D54FA8@microsoft.com...
> Arrggg....
>
> Thanks all for the responses - Patrick's repsonse answered the question
(unfortunately)....
> I was aware of the ability to see what was checked out currently - this
isn't what I was hoping for.
>
> While checking out an item may not modify the item as such, it would still
be useful for security, logging,
> etc. to be able to tell who had checked a file out. (Among other things, a
file could be checked out and then
> modified outside the SS environment, etc.) - it would be good to be able
to know who had gotten a look
> at the code and where they checked it out to, for a variety of reasons.
>
> Guess there's no way to do it, short of writing a custom front-end for
VSS. Blech.
> IMHO, this is a pretty major oversight... From a security perspective, it
is very important to know who
> checked out items and to where.
>
> What's the use of prompt for a comment on checkout?
> I'm thinking the events must be stored somewhere, if not readily available
from the UI, unless the comment
> is just stored for the lifetime of the checkout?
>
>
>
> ----- JimG wrote: -----
>
> I'll take a stab in the dark here and guess that you might be wanting
to know about all the checked out files.
>
> You can find this info by:
>
> 1) Select the project in question.
> 2) Select View|Search|Status Search from the Main Menu in the VSS
explorer.
> 3) The Status Search dialog provides a few options to hone your
search such as by-userid and/or recursive search.
>
> Hope this helps.

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