Using your source control manager

The PowerBuilder SCC API works with your source control system to perform certain source control operations and functions described in the next section. Other source control operations must be performed directly from the source control management tool. After you have defined a source control connection profile for your PowerBuilder workspace, you can open your source control manager from the Library painter.

To start your source control manager from PowerBuilder

Select Entry>Source Control>Run Source Control Manager from the Library painter menu bar.

The menu item name varies depending on the source control system you selected in the source control connection profile for your current workspace. There is no manager tool for the PBNative check in/check out utility.

For information on configuring a source control connection profile, see “Setting up a connection profile”.

Which tool to use

The following table shows which source control functions you should perform from your source control manager and which you can perform from PowerBuilder:

**Table 3-1: Where to perform source control operations**
Tool or interface	Use for this source control functionality
Source control manager	Setting up a project* Assigning access permissions Retrieving earlier revisions of objects* Assigning revision labels* Running reports* Editing the PBG file for a source-controlled target*
PowerBuilder SCC API	Setting up a connection profile Viewing the status of source-controlled objects Adding objects to source control Checking objects out from source control Checking objects in to source control Clearing the checked-out status of objects Synchronizing objects with the source control server Refreshing the status of objects Comparing local objects with source control versions Displaying the source control version history Removing objects from source control

* You can perform these source control operations from PowerBuilder for some source control systems.