Version Control

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
September 3, 2014
3 replies
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Hi,

Does Thingworx have any version control capabilities or what would be the recommended way of backing up different versions of content and restoring?

Thanks.

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adamtrainer

5-Regular Member

Hi Victor,

I don't know they we've settled on a recommended method of putting ThingWorx applications under source control, but we've introduced functionality in 5.0 to make this possible. From Composer,

Import/Export

→ Source Control Entities
. This functionality is similar to a standard export, however it will create directories for each entity type (e.g. Things
, ThingTemplates
, etc.) and a file for each entity. The files are exported to a FileRepository
and from there, you'll need to decide how you want to get them into a version control system.

Regards,

Adam

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victorgan

Author

1-Visitor

Hi Adam,

I'm using version 5.0, but I don't see the option "Source Control Entities". The options I have are the "To File" and "To ThingworxStorage". Do I need to import an extension to see this option?

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adamtrainer

5-Regular Member

Victor,

Are you using a 5.0 SP2? I've confirmed this menu item is available in 5.0 SP2. If you're unable to upgrade at the moment, you can access this functionality as Services (available from the Snippets tab under SourceControlFunctions) to programmatically export entities for source control.