Hello,

In my shop we have a couple different groups that do form maintenance. Unfortunately, many of our forms are shared between the groups. We are running into a lot of issues where one group will install a change that wipes out someone else changes. We have established a manual procedure where everyone is supposed to update a spreadsheet to let others know they are working on a form. However, the problem is getting people to follow the procedures.

In order to resolve the situation, I am looking for suggestions as to how others have handled these issues. Does anyone have recommendations they can share?

I appreciate any and all suggestions.

Thanks in advance,

Evan

Evan,

I've heard of folks employing a revision control app to manage the issues you describe.

The forms would reside in the repository and managed from there.

Once this is done the check-out/commit process can be pretty transparent to the end users.

Git and Subversion seem to be two of the most popular.

Check out the list here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revision_control_software

-Nate