Supported functionality

Foundry Branching currently provides coverage for Pipeline Builder, Ontology Manager, and Workshop.

The current feature set includes the ability to:

• Create a Foundry branch from Pipeline Builder, Ontology Manager, Workshop, or from the Foundry Branching application. Branches are associated with a single Ontology.
• Access Ontology Manager and manage Ontology resources that are associated with the Foundry branch. Foundry branches are also accessible from any Pipeline Builder or Workshop resource.
• View the resources that are modified on your branch, at any point of your workflow, using the Branch Taskbar.
• View all resources modified on a branch from the Foundry Branching application.
• Preview data in Workshop and run Actions on a branch.
  • Workshop will load data from the branch for all resources on the branch and resources which are not modified on the branch will be loaded from the main branch.
  • Users can run actions on branches to test the Workshop module with the changes on the branch. Note that this is designed for testing changes to production workflows, any edits made by running Actions on the branch will not be deployed during branch deployment.
• Track what is ready to be previewed on a branch.
• Manage the review process centrally.
• Deploy changes centrally, for Pipeline Builder, Ontology, and Workshop changes.
• Set retention policies for Foundry Branching.

The following features are in development:

• Integration with Resource Manager.
• Integration with Logic.
• Integration with Code Repository data transforms.
• Background replay orchestration on branches.

The following features are next on the development roadmap:

• Support for Restricted views.
• Support for Typescript Functions.
• Support for OSDK client generation and further third-party application integration.
• Provide users with the ability to specify what gets indexed on a branch.
• Support for additional Foundry applications.

The following features not on the roadmap:

• Branching Compass folder hierarchy or creating new native Compass resources solely on the branch.