Collaboration Procedures and Reference

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Use the Repository window to navigate, select, view, and perform tasks on repositories and their contents. To manage repositories, you must have the appropriate license. For information on creating repositories, see the iGrafx platform Help.

You must open a repository before you can access its contents. Contact your system administrator to gain access privileges to repositories in your organization.

Unloading and loading a repository is a shortcut for detaching from a repository when you do not need it and reattaching when you do. Unloading repositories can shorten start-up time, improve server performance, and reduce the number of server connections.

Task	Procedure
Open a repository	On the Repositories menu, choose Open Repository and use the wizard to log in to a SQL-based or Oracle-based server.
Close a repository	In the Repository window, right-click a repository and choose Close Repository. Closing a repository detaches it and removes its icon from the Repository window.
Unload a repository	In the Repository window, right-click a repository icon and choose Unload Repository. Unloading a repository disconnects it, but keeps the icon in the Repository window for easy reloading so you can skip server login when you want to reconnect to it. To reconnect an unloaded repository, use the Load Repository command.
Load a repository	In the Repository window, right-click an unloaded repository icon, and click Load Repository. Loading a repository reconnects an unloaded repository.
View the repository window	Click the Repository tab on the iGrafx Explorer bar, or, on the Repositories menu, choose Show Window.
Perform tasks on a repository item	Do one of the following in the repository window: Right-click the item and choose a command on the context menu. Click an item and choose a command on the Repositories menu. Click an item and choose a command from the Repositories toolbar.
Refresh the repository window	On the Repositories menu, choose Refresh Window. Use the Refresh Window command for the latest view of the repository. Other users’ changes may not appear until you use this command.
Change display of hierarchy and approved items	On the Repositories menu, choose Options. The Repository Options dialog box contains options for viewing links and marking approved items in the tree hierarchy.