Defining Design Repository Preferences for Altium Designer
Created: April 22, 2019 | Updated: September 03, 2021
| Applies to versions: 19.1, 20.0, 20.1 and 20.2
Now reading version 20.0. For the latest, read: Defining Design Repository Preferences for Altium Designer for version 21
The Data Management - Design Repositories page of the Preferences dialog
Summary
The Data Management – Design Repositories page of the Preferences dialog allows you to create or connect to a design repository.
When signed into a managed content server, a green icon (
) appears next to the name of the page in the folder region to denote that the page is under the server's control.
) appears next to the name of the page in the folder region to denote that the page is under the server's control.Access
The Data Management – Design Repositories page is part of the main Preferences dialog that is accessed by clicking the 
control in the upper-right corner of the workspace then selecting the Design Repositories entry under the Data Management folder.
Options/Controls
Design Repositories
A Design Repository is a version control system that contains your team's design document.
- Design Repository List - displays all the current available design repositories.
- Create New - use to create a new design repository.
- Connect to - use to connect to an existing design repository.
- Properties - click to open a dialog in which you can edit the selected design repository's properties.
- Remove - click to remove the selected design repository.