Form Versions Overview
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Platform Developer | 17.10
This feature was updated in 17.10.
Journey Maestro allows you to save a unique copy of a form by using form versions. You may want to create a new form version each time the TM Form Version is built, or when you are making significant changes to a form.
Creating a new form version at these points may save you the hassle of fixing your form should something go wrong. For example, say you're adding a feature or changing the behavior of existing form items but while making these changes something goes wrong. Form versions allow you to easily return to a previous working version of the form.
Maestro provides a convenient interface to create, edit, delete, tag, and export form versions.
Since 17.10, the Temenos Journey Manager platform follows open source semantic versioning conventions. Following this convention, all new form version names are recommended to start at version 1.0-develop until they reach production. In versions of Maestro prior to 17.10, form versions are incremented by whole numbers (for example version 1, version 2, version 3, etc.).
When you create a new form, the initial form version depends on the Default Initial Version specified in the Project Details tab of a project. You can change the Default Initial Version at any time by switching to the Project Details tab and changing its value. However, this only impacts new forms and assets within this project; version numbers of existing forms are unaffected.
Form versions are sorted and displayed in descending order based on major, minor and patch release numbers.
Semantic versioning provides the following benefits:
- Standardize versioning of Maestro design artifacts which in turn makes management of different versions easier
- Align more closely with Manager's versioning scheme
- Assist Form Builders who are developing forms concurrently
- Lock down a form version using tags
When working on any form, it is recommended that you do all your work on version 1.0-develop, which is the initial form version, until the form is ready for production. When a form is ready for production, you should create a tagged version of the form.
When you create a SCM project, Maestro disables the form version feature, so you must create and later maintain form versions using a GitGit is a version control system for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people. It is primarily used for source code management in software development,[8] but it can be used to keep track of changes in any set of files. version control.
If you are using Maestro 17.10.x with a Journey Manager 5.x environment, and your form version number is longer than 10 digits (e.g. "1.0-develop"), you will get an error when you attempt to import the Manager 17.10.x form to the Manager 5.x environment. In this case, it is recommended that you shorten the default suffix when creating new form versions in Maestro 17.10.x.
Next, learn how Manager handles form versions.