CAAPE User's Manual - ALSTOM Signaling Inc.

Configuration Control9. SECTION 9 – CONFIGURATION CONTROL9.1. INTRODUCTIONThis section describes various aspects of configuration control, both for application dataand for CAAPE itself.9.2. APPLICATION DATA9.2.1. Graphical ComponentsA multi-line text field can be used to store version and description data for graphicalsystem and component elements.Application Revision History can be entered graphically through the Revision Historyediting tab for CPU/PD, CPU II, VSP, CSEX, NVSP, or CenTraCode II-s CPU boards.Revision data can include a revision ID, date, author, summary text and multiple lines ofdetails text. The data is exported to the application's main input file, where it can beread by newer compilers for output to the configuration report and read by the RelayEquivalent Drawing Program for output to its relay equivalent printout or DXF files. SeeRevision History.When Make Files or Build is performed on a graphical system, the dates and times of itsgraphical components are saved along with the dates and times of the text files createdfrom them. This data can be displayed by right clicking on an application folder in theFile View and selecting Show Graphical Dependencies from its popup menu. Thedata is also automatically saved in the configuration report when the application data iscompiled.If you create text files from graphics and then manually change their contents, a warningis displayed if you try to compile the application. A message is also displayed when thegraphical data is changed but the text files have not been updated. These are warningsthat the graphical data and the text files are not in synch, but the warnings can beoverridden and the compile done anyway if desired.P2512A, Rev. Oct/09 9–1 Alstom Signaling Inc.