About Source Control

You can use a source control system to allow multiple developers in the system the ability to customize and maintain forms without having to worry about overwriting one another's changes.

Multiple source control options are supported:

• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server
• Apache Subversion
• Git

If you plan to use any of these source control systems to manage changes to forms and other system components, you must take these steps:

• Obtain, install, and configure the source control software.
• Use the Mongoose Configuration Manager to configure the source control software to work with your system. For more information, see one or both of these documentation sources:
  • The Infor Mongoose Installation Guide: Information about setting up the required databases
  • The Configuration Manager online help: Information about setting up the source control software to work with Mongoose
    Note: The Configuration Manager help provides information only about how to set Mongoose up to work with your source control software. For information about how to set up your source control software, see the documentation for that software.
• On the Users form, Source Control tab, configure the user profile for each system user who is authorized to check forms and other components in and out.