4.14 Linking a Development Environment

When working with a team, it may be easier for all members of your team to work from the same environment, so that it can be updated or modified by one person, such as a team leader. NDI can "link" to an existing environment that you have access to that has been created by another instance of NDI. In this case, no software is installed, only the data about that environment is added to NDI. Any updates made to the environment are shared with other instances of NDI that it is linked with. This can be useful when working with source repositories or other methods of source control.

To link an environment, follow these steps.

  1. Start NDI and click Dev Environments to open the Add Environment screen. If you have previously installed an environment, the Dev Environments screen will display instead. To advance, select Add Environment in the upper left.
  2. On the Add Environment screen, select Link to Existing.



  3. Enter the location of the environment to link. A valid location is a folder containing the index file for the environment. If the entered location does not contain an index file, an error will display. Click Link.



  4. NDI will link with the selected environment, adding it to the Dev Environments screen.

 


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