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Enabling the Parallel Development Feature for Siebel Tools Workspaces

Only users that have administrative permissions can enable the Parallel Development Using Workspaces feature. In general, the Siebel administrators perform this task for all members in the development teams.

NOTE:  Before you enable the Parallel Development feature for workspaces in your working environment, the Siebel environment must be in the Composer mode and the workspaces must be enabled.

For more information on how to enable workspaces in Siebel Tools, see Workspaces Administration.

For more information on how to use the Workspaces feature in Siebel Tools as a Siebel developer or user, see "Using the Command Line.

To enable the Parallel Development feature for Siebel Tools Workspaces

1. As an administrator and owner of the development environment, log into the Siebel application that is set in the Composer mode.

   NOTE:  You can set the user preferences using either the Siebel application or Siebel Tools. To see the changes of the preferences in Siebel Tools, you must log out of Siebel Tools and then log in again. To see the changes of the preferences in Siebel application, you must restart the services of the application.

2. From the toolbar, choose the Screens option, System Administration and then select the System Preferences menu item.

   The System Preference Administration window appears.

   NOTE:  In Web Tools, click the Tools menu and then click the System Preferences menu item.

3. In the System preferences section, set the following parameter value to Y (yes):

   Enable Integration Workspaces=Y

Figure 6 illustrates Siebel Tools displaying the System Preference Administration window.

Figure 6. Example of Siebel Tools in Workspace mode displaying the workspace dashboard

4. After setting the parameter Enable Integration Workspaces to Y, restart the services of Siebel Server Application to reflect the new parameter value on the server side.

   The environment is now ready for all users to create the parallel-development workspaces.

   For information about restarting Siebel Servers, see the Siebel System Administration Guide.