Check-out Trace Utility Command-line Operations

The following table presents the command-line options for the Check-out Trace utility.

In general, you can run the utility from the command line with default options as follows: CheckoutTraceDump.exe -go. Valid options for Check-out Trace are described below.

-go	Specify this flag to run with default settings.
–path:<path>	Folder of the binary check-out trace (.cotrc) files. Defaults to the current folder.
–outpath:<path>	Folder for the output (.csv) files. Defaults to the same folder as the binary trace (.cotrc) files.
-file:<filespec>	Binary check-out trace files to be used as input. Supports standard file system wildcard values (*,?). Defaults to “*.cotrc” (all check-out trace files in the folder). You cannot use more than one path with the parameter, and you cannot specify this parameter more than once per command.
-ext:<extension>	The file extension used for check-out trace files. The extension is appended to the binary check-out trace (.cotrc) filename to create the output dump filename. Defaults to .csv.
-start:<start time>	Earliest date-time of interest. Only checkouts that occurred after this time will be output. By default, the utility does not filter by time.
-end:<end time>	Specifies the most recent date-time of interest. Only checkouts that occurred before this time will be output. By default, the utility does not filter by time.
–project:<project name>	Name of the project for which check-out information is to be filtered. Only checkouts from this project will be output. By default, the utility does not filter by project. All projects are included in the output. If both -project and -projectid are specified, -projectid takes precedence.
-projectid:<project ID>	ID of the project for which check-out information is to be filtered. Only checkouts from this project will be output. By default, the utility does not filter by project ID. All projects are included in the output. This option takes precedence over -project if both options are specified.
-separator:<separator>	String used to separate values in the output file. By default, the utility uses “,”.
–overwrite	Specify this flag to overwrite existing check-out trace files. If not specified, check-out trace binary files will be skipped if a trace dump file with the target name already exists.