| Unless you are constrained by requirements of existing software, I believe
that you should be installing Rally V2.1A rather than V2.1.
The reason for this is that Rally V2.1 introduced (intentionally)
some serious functional changes over V2.0 which were found to be HIGHLY
undesirable when they reached the field, and had to be modified to their
original behaviour by V2.1A.
The most serious of these was the way in which Rally behaved in nested
transactions. For example, suppose you wanted to assemble a list of records
that conformed to some selection criteria (outer transaction), and then select
some of those records, one by one, to examine in detail (series of inner
transactions). With Rally V2.0 and V2.1A, you could do this with ease, returning
to your assembled list of records (outer transaction) between each detailed
record examination (inner transaction). With Rally V2.1 ONLY, the termination of
the first inner transaction would cause the outer transaction to terminate
leaving you without the list of records. Note that this behaviour only existed
in V2.1, so any mods to make nested transactions work properly from V2.0 to
V2.1 would have to be removed again for subsequent versions of Rally.
Steve
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