Hello, It would be more clear if in this video it was shown that how second user has the repository from the beginning. If he clones the repository from the GitHub or he/she exports from Tia portal project.
Thanks for the video. I'm already installation ACT and setting in TIA Portal V18(add running path exe file), but still not have "compare to the workspace file" item when right click mouse in the VCI, What is the problem?
Hey there - we did an updated version of this for V18 in our blog. There's a setting you have to enable that might help? See the link here: www.outlierautomation.com/blog/using-siemens-version-control-interface-vci-in-tia-portal-v18
Awesome content. I am working on developing a solution for my team and I am unable to push local commits to the remote repository. I get a permission denied (publickey) error. I understand that this error is due to VCI's inability to push without the SSH key. What do I do?
Something broken on Siemens Industrial Portal - nobody can download Automation Compare Tool (even from Germany from official German account - without any restrictions). Does any body have one?
This was a very helpful video. I was able to to get things working with only one repo, but I wasn't able to have a local and remote repo like you had in the video. I currently have a repo setup on a server in my building and tia portal installed on a vm. I am able to communicate with the repo through shared folders, but when i clone the repo to a local one on my vm, I am unable to push changes to the repo on my network drive. Would you have any advice on how to do this or where to look to figure it out?
Hi Marc! Do you have any specific errors you're getting back when you're unable to push? Are you trying to push from TIA Portal or from a Git interface? Common reasons you might not be able to commit to the remote branch are needing an SSH key for authentication or configuration in the repo requiring you push to a development branch rather than the main branch.
@@outlierautomation I actually got it figured out now. The ssh was my issue. The way I had it setup before was just having a repo on our local server, but I didn't have a repo management software like gitlab. What I ended up doing is setting the repo up on github because we don't currently have a database setup on the server for me to use something gitea on, which is the management software I was going to try to use. After setting it up on github, I cloned the repo and everything worked great. Thanks for the reply!
Thanks for the video. I saw that, if you have some Folders with blocks, if you change the name of the folder, the vci does not recognize it. Or if you change something in the export folder, its just doesnt't find the blocks anymore. Also if someone makes a new block and you pull it from git, you have to manually import (drag and drop) with the vci. But how do you know there's a new block? If you want to push an unfinished draft of a block, so an other person can work at it, it's not possible unless you make sure you can build it. I think all in all it's a good tool, but it's not really finished.
Hey A Fry! Thanks for your comment. We have definitely found it useful for iterating development of blocks like a library. You're right, it's not really geared toward developing a full project, yet. Siemens will definitely be expanding its functionality in the future!
very useful video, it started slow, but everything made sense, thanks
Hello, It would be more clear if in this video it was shown that how second user has the repository from the beginning. If he clones the repository from the GitHub or he/she exports from Tia portal project.
It is a Great Video, clear and compact. I'm using project server now but I think it will be much better to use a popular tool like Git/SVN
Thanks for the video.
I'm already installation ACT and setting in TIA Portal V18(add running path exe file), but still not have "compare to the workspace file" item when right click mouse in the VCI, What is the problem?
Hey there - we did an updated version of this for V18 in our blog. There's a setting you have to enable that might help? See the link here:
www.outlierautomation.com/blog/using-siemens-version-control-interface-vci-in-tia-portal-v18
Awesome content. I am working on developing a solution for my team and I am unable to push local commits to the remote repository. I get a permission denied (publickey) error. I understand that this error is due to VCI's inability to push without the SSH key. What do I do?
Something broken on Siemens Industrial Portal - nobody can download Automation Compare Tool (even from Germany from official German account - without any restrictions). Does any body have one?
This was a very helpful video. I was able to to get things working with only one repo, but I wasn't able to have a local and remote repo like you had in the video. I currently have a repo setup on a server in my building and tia portal installed on a vm. I am able to communicate with the repo through shared folders, but when i clone the repo to a local one on my vm, I am unable to push changes to the repo on my network drive. Would you have any advice on how to do this or where to look to figure it out?
Hi Marc! Do you have any specific errors you're getting back when you're unable to push? Are you trying to push from TIA Portal or from a Git interface? Common reasons you might not be able to commit to the remote branch are needing an SSH key for authentication or configuration in the repo requiring you push to a development branch rather than the main branch.
@@outlierautomation I actually got it figured out now. The ssh was my issue. The way I had it setup before was just having a repo on our local server, but I didn't have a repo management software like gitlab. What I ended up doing is setting the repo up on github because we don't currently have a database setup on the server for me to use something gitea on, which is the management software I was going to try to use. After setting it up on github, I cloned the repo and everything worked great. Thanks for the reply!
@@marcrimby3821 Great! Glad it's working. Enjoy and please subscribe :)
Thanks for the video.
I saw that, if you have some Folders with blocks, if you change the name of the folder, the vci does not recognize it. Or if you change something in the export folder, its just doesnt't find the blocks anymore. Also if someone makes a new block and you pull it from git, you have to manually import (drag and drop) with the vci. But how do you know there's a new block? If you want to push an unfinished draft of a block, so an other person can work at it, it's not possible unless you make sure you can build it.
I think all in all it's a good tool, but it's not really finished.
Hey A Fry! Thanks for your comment. We have definitely found it useful for iterating development of blocks like a library. You're right, it's not really geared toward developing a full project, yet. Siemens will definitely be expanding its functionality in the future!
@@outlierautomation I hope they will expand the functionality. It could be such a great tool but like I said, sadly it's not yet finished