How-to Guides

How to get your local git repo onto AllSpice

Overview This tutorial will help you migrate your local git repo to AllSpice. Create a new repo in AllSpice Hub. AllSpice doesn't allow you to create a repo by pushing. Copy the project URL. Link your local repo to the AllSp...

Updated on : 20 Mar 2023

How to setup GitHub Organization settings to allow classic access tokens

If you are migrating or mirroring a repo from your personal github account, you can generate an access token and skip this tutorial. If you need to migrate a github repo owned by an organization, you must first set the organization settings befo...

Updated on : 06 Mar 2023

How to configure branch protection

There are many reasons to use branch protection, and many individual permissions that can help your team model your workflow. To access your branch settings, click on the settings tab of any repo. Here is an example branch settings tab: Ena...

Updated on : 05 Mar 2023

How to configure teams

Teams are one of our most important features. Teams let you configure who can and cannot read/write files, push/pull to the repository, whether the team is paid or not, and more. TLDR, we have a short guide to change the number of paid commit...

Updated on : 03 Mar 2023

Add internal contributors to my organization

1. Go to your Dashboard on the top left of the screen 2. Select Organization 3. Under My Organizations, select the one you wish to add people to 4. When adding collaborators to your organization, we recommend creating a new team so you can...

Updated on : 27 Feb 2023

Add external clients or vendors to my organization

This article has been replaced by this article " How to invite or add people to your organizations teams " https://allspice.document360.io/docs/en/how-to-invite-or-add-people-to-your-organizations-teams

Updated on : 27 Feb 2023

Create a repo template

Overview Repository templates are pre-configured settings and information you can use to pre-populate new repositories. They help you standardize documentation across teams, avoid human error, and streamline workflows. Steps to create a rep...

Updated on : 05 Jul 2022

Create a design review template

Overview Design review templates are pre-filled frameworks and content that you can set in advance for any future reviews. They are great to: Standardize processes across teams Give new engineers a starting point to help with their training a...

Updated on : 05 Jul 2022

Enable_disable email notifications

To setup or update your email notification preferences, follow these steps: Go to your profile drop-down menu at the top right of the window. Select Settings Navigate to your Account information, the second tab from the left within the Settings ...

Updated on : 05 Jul 2022

Create Slack notifications

1. Create a new app in your slack dashboard (See slack webhooks for more info) and "From scratch" 2. Give the app a name, add it to your workspace, and select "Create App" 3. Select "Incoming Webhooks" 4. Toggle "Activate Incomin...

Updated on : 05 Jul 2022

Make my organization public

Making an organization public means that anyone can see your company profile in AllSpice's public explore page. In a public organization, when you set a repository as public anyone can view the repo content. If you do this, we strongly sugge...

Updated on : 05 Jul 2022

Make a repo public

Making a repository public has different implications depending on who's the repo owner. If the owner is set to your organization , unchecking "Private" will have different behaviors depending on how organization visibility is set: Visibilit...

Updated on : 05 Jul 2022

Installing the library merge tool

Overview The first thing you'll need to do to get your electronics design project in AllSpice Hub is create a new repository. In general, each design (PCBA) should have its own repository. 1. Install .Net 5 Runtime for console Follow the ...

Updated on : 05 Jul 2022

Hardware releases 101

Overview Revision control is a continuous process, with every change and edit tracked, allowing you to pick and choose each of these edits to create a new change. Releases give the ability to point to a specific moment in the change history, wit...

Updated on : 05 Jul 2022

Organizing Multiple PCBAs

# Tutorial: Organizing Multiple PCBAs A tutorial for how to use AllSpice Hub for organizing multiple PCBAs to answer the question “How can I best manage large complex projects with multiple PCBAs?” If you're in a hurry, we have a TLDR sho...

Updated on : 31 Aug 2022

How to revert a design review (pull request)

It happens to all of us. You sign off on a design review (pull request) and merge the changes, only to learn that not all of the correct changes were merged in. This how-to explains how to revert a design review and keep your commits so you can ad...

Updated on : 17 Aug 2022

How to create custom labels

You can create custom labels for your repo. Click on the issues tab of your repo to see a list of Labels. You can delete the labels by clicking on the delete button for each label. If you'd like to edit a lable to change the name, descripti...

Updated on : 30 Aug 2022

Fixing merge conflicts after committing to the wrong branch

Summary We've all been there. You've made changes to your project and you're excited to put a button on it and push your commit right away. It's only later when you realize that you've been pushing to the wrong branch. You don't notice the problem...

Updated on : 12 Sep 2022

How to minimize files in design review by file pattern or extension

Not every file you track changes in revision control is meaningful for review. ECAD tools often have large spaghetti project files that you definitely want to keep in revision control, but aren't easily readable or useful to review and clutter up th...

Updated on : 16 Sep 2022

How to Mirror

You may be interested in mirroring your repository from an external repo to an AllSpice Hub repo or the other way around, from an AllSpice Hub repo to an external repo. Either way, we'll show you how. Add push mirror from AllSpice to external host...

Updated on : 22 Mar 2023

How to diff or compare two arbitrary commits without generating a design review

Comparing two different commits and reviewing the diff is relatively easy. Visit: https://hub.allspice.io/<org name>/<repo name>/compare/ref1...ref2 References can be branches, tags, SHAs, or even shortened tags. Ref1 should be the older re...

Updated on : 11 Nov 2022

How to close issues from a design review

Closing issues To close the issues when the design review is complete, add them to the design review description with one of the following keywords followed by the issue number. ● close/closes/closed ● fix/fixes/fixed ● resolve/resolves/resolve...

Updated on : 30 Nov 2022

How to add or change email addresses

Are you rebranding? Did you change organizations? It doesn't matter the reason, because changing your email address in AllSpice Hub is super easy. Adding a new email address in AllSpice Hub Navigate to the account tab of your settings Scro...

Updated on : 07 Dec 2022

How to re-run TortoiseGit's first start wizard

Sometimes it's easier to re-run the TortoiseGit's first start wizard if you are changing configurations or your configurations weren't set up correctly in the beginning. To re-run the first start wizard, open up TortoiseGit settings, navigate to t...

Updated on : 14 Dec 2022

How-to view widescreen in a design review

You can view files in "widescreen" mode in a design review by using the split view feature. After you click on the split view button, the view will expand to the width of the browser window.

Updated on : 21 Dec 2022

Using the AllSpice API

AllSpice has a wonderful REST API. It's supported by the fantastic swagger api documentation system, so it's clean, easy to understand, and best of all, you can run and test the API commands in a web interface. Using our API you will be able to cr...

Updated on : 31 Jan 2023

How to create an AllSpice authentication application access token

This article will show you how to create an allspice access token. Background There are a lot of different security protocols used in AllSpice. Keys You might be using SSH or GPG encryption keys to encrypt your designs as they are pushed a...

Updated on : 30 Jan 2023

How to invite or add people to your organization's teams

Navigate to your organization's page. This is your page's dashboard. To navigate to the page, click on the "View YourOrgName" button. From the organization page, click on the teams tab Click on the team you wish to add the new user to. Y...

Updated on : 06 Feb 2023