Perforce Integration

Perforce Integration

CogniDox Perforce Integration

It is common in software projects for product documentation to be included in the source control management system (SCM). While this provides the benefits of strongly controlling the documentation within a familiar SCM system, there are a number of disadvantages that can occur:

• Documentation has a restricted view within the organisation, limited only to those with SCM access
• Collecting comments about documents can be tricky
• The documents are not searchable to the wider organisation
• Distribution of the documents to customers requires a dedicated build process

The CogniDox Perforce integration aims to remove these problems while allowing engineers to benefit from the excellent SCM capabilities Perforce provides. Using the integration, it is possible to associate a document in the Perforce repository with a document in CogniDox. Whenever the document is committed in the repository, a trigger fires that updates the document within CogniDox. The integration brings the following benefits:

• Documents are exposed to a wider audience within the organisation
• Committing a document in Perforce can initiate a review workflow in CogniDox
• Documents become searchable using the in-built CogniDox search system
• Using CogniDox's licensing and publishing features, documents can be quickly distributed to authorised customers

The CogniDox Perforce integration is available as standard from release 8.1.0 of CogniDox, and is suitable for Perforce 2009.1 & 2009.2.