Version control

In this recipe, we will look at how to use the Orchestrator version control and use it to control your software development.

Getting ready

A working Orchestrator is required, and you will need the rights to create new workflows and run them. We will work with the Orchestrator Client.

We need an existing workflow which we can play around with. In this recipe, we will use the workflow we have created in the Workflow basics recipe (3.01 in the example package).

How to do it...

1. Make a duplicate of the workflow we have created in the Workflow basics recipe.
2. Click on General and have a look at the current version (see the following screenshot).
3. Open the workflow for editing by right-clicking on it and selecting Edit.
4. Drag a system log element from the log section into the schema.
5. Edit the system log and bind the text in-parameter to an existing string variable as we have discussed in the Workflow basics recipe.
6. Click on Save and Close and then select Increase version.
7. The version counter...