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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Method Composer
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 13, 2022

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MEC should prompt user to select a workspace on opening

When Method Composer 7.6.2 is opened, it always opens a default workspace in the user's home area. If you need to use a different workspace, that wastes time waiting for the default workspace to open and then switching workspace.

It's also confusing for users familiar with standard Eclipse distributions, which ask which workspace they want to open on launch. This supports multiple workspaces perfectly, and it supports those who only ever use one workspace via an option to "use this as a default and do not ask again".

Multiple MEC workspaces are needed when the user has several different RTC project areas or streams that they want to connect to, but want to keep the data well separated. The recent enabling of the "switch workspace" feature shows that the need is recognised by the product team, but this suggestion will improve and complete the support.

To be specific, this suggestion is ideally to change the MEC behaviour to follow the standard Eclipse behaviour of prompting for a workspace on opening, or as a fall back to provide an eclipse.ini parameter which sets MEC to use the standard Eclipse behaviour.

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
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  • Guest
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    |     Dec 11, 2024

    It's over two and a half years since this IDEA was raised. Please could you look at your schedule and try to plan it in? To me, it doesn't seem like a very radical request. This functionality to prompt for a workspace on startup is standard behaviour in other Eclipse-based tools, including in EWM. It seems like it has been suppressed in Method Composer, but now that Method Composer is integrated with EWM and supports "workspace libraries", this feature is really really needed.

    Currently I have to advise all users to open MEC, wait for it to load the default workspace, then remember to switch workspaces to the one they really want. That's a real waste of time.  I'm asking you to eliminate the wait for the default workspace to load each time MEC is launched, and to instead prompt for which workspace to load.

  • Guest
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    |     May 3, 2022

    @Bhawana Gupta, thank you for updating the status to "Future consideration".

  • Guest
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    |     Apr 14, 2022

    I think you have dismissed this suggestion too lightly and I would like you to reconsider. To claim that the "functionality already exists" is like telling me I have no need for a car because the "functionality already exists" to walk.

    At the moment, every user in our organisation will hit the same issue, that they can't connect to multiple MEC/EWM workspaces in a chosen folder as they would expect to with other Eclipse installations. This will cause them wasted time while they search for a solution, and me wasted time trying to propagate the workarounds to the user community.

    Further, creating shortcuts is not something all users are familiar with; it's just a real clumsy workaround. Do we need to create a separate shortcut for each Word document we edit? No. Do we need a separate shortcut for each Visual Studio project, Rhapsody model, or RTC project area? No. I cannot think of any other application which requires the user to create a separate shortcut for each project they want to open.

    So I think there is a genuine need to enhance MEC so that it fully supports multiple workspaces in the same way that other Eclipse distributions do, and so that the capability is obvious in the user interface without searching support documents.

    Further, because MEC has already been enhanced to be able to switch workspaces after initial launch, it appears that the fundamentals may be already in place.

  • Admin
    BHAWANA GUPTA
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    |     Apr 14, 2022

    The RFE review board has evaluated this request. This request, while valid, is being rejected as it is possible to do this using existing options.

    Create a separate MEC shortcut for each workspace that the user wants to open when the application launches. Refer to Using multiple Engineering Method Composer workspaces .

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