You can work offline and still see status information from the last time you were connected to source control. However, you cannot perform any source control operations while you are offline, and you cannot save changes to source-controlled objects that you did not check out from source control before you went offline.
To be able to work offline, you should select the option on the Source Control page of the Workspace Properties dialog box that indicates you sometimes work offline. If you select this option, a dialog box displays each time you open the workspace. The dialog box prompts you to select whether you want to work online or offline.
For more information about setting source control options for your workspace, see “Setting up a connection profile”.
If you opt to work offline, PowerBuilder looks for (and imports) a PBC file in the local root directory. The PBC file is a text file that contains status information from the last time a workspace was connected to source control. PowerBuilder creates a PBC file only from a workspace that is connected to source control. Status information is added to the PBC file from expanded object nodes (in the System Tree or in a Library painter view) at the time you exit the workspace.
If a PBC file already exists for a workspace that is connected to source control, PowerBuilder merges status information from the current workspace session to status information already contained in the PBC file. Newer status information for an object replaces older status information for the same object, but older status information is not overwritten for objects in nodes that were not expanded during a subsequent workspace session.
You can back up the PBC file with current checkout and version information by selecting the Backup SCC Status Cache menu item from the Library painter Entry>Source Control menu, or from the pop-up menu on the current workspace item in the System Tree. The Library painter menu item is only enabled when the current workspace file is selected.
The Backup SCC Status Cache operation copies the entire contents of the refresh status cache to the PBC file in the local project path whether the status cache is dirty or valid. To assure a valid status cache, you can perform a Refresh Status operation on the entire workspace before backing up the SCC status cache.
For information about refreshing the status cache, see “Refreshing the status of objects”.
