SnapshotCM Tips and Tricks

The SnapshotCM Graphical User Interface gathers and displays a lot of information upon start-up. Since the GUI begins from the last exit's saved state, if, for example, you were last looking at a large hierarchy in which the recursive box was checked, your start-up time could be significant as the complete hierarchy is re-read and displayed. To reduce this start-up cost, SnapshotCM supports a workspace option flag (Project->Options Workspace), which will disable recursion on start-up. Enabling this option can significantly improve your start-up performance and is recommended for all dial-up and WAN use.

Start-up performance is further improved in the 1.72 release, where protocol optimizations for reading a project's snapshot hierarchy have been implemented.

You can also speed up opening of SnapshotCM to a specific workspace by passing a local directory path on the command line. The GUI will start with the Workspace Browser set to that directory and the project browser open to the related project. By adding the path option to a Windows shortcut, you can quickly open a SnapshotCM browser to any specific workspace.