Block branch from accidentally mutating

Hi Marc,

There are a couple options I can think of in the moment. The most easy would be indeed a message when opening any menu item that the branch you are working in is a branch that should not be mutated. We used to have this when opening a Production project version but was lost due to the concept changing. Is this a suitable option?

A more impactful and less desirable solution is having context and layout logic on every editable screen in the Software Factory simply preventing the execution of any task and disallowing Add/Edit/Delete; but the downside is that you cannot change anything when it is needed.

We are open to hearing everyones suggestion 😄

Hello Mark

The most ideal solution would be what you propose as the 2nd option.
But to avoid the "I wasn't paying attention and now I have to do everything again" mistakes, I think option 1 (showing a warning) is also a good step.

The 2nd option would be the most formal and complete approach. (Aside using guard triggers on the sf db as the ultimate protection). When it can be implemented with a dynamical control procedure, it might be less work then it looks like possibly making it more desirable.

Hi All,

In the 2025.1 platform version we introduced an option to set a branch read-only per user.

Oh joy, is this really in the next release?! 
I know it's totally my fault, but the last week I'vee been literally been doing everything twice, because after a sync to the IAM, the MAIN branch is open and as there is no way of visually distiguishing DEV  from MAIN, I always forget to first switch back to DEV. 
This resulted in lots of time spent, and broken branches. Glad to see this will be soon of the past :-) 

Hi ​@tiago,

Then you might also find this an interesting idea to cast your vote on:

• Assign color to a branch to make it easier to see which branch is selected Open
• 9 Votes

Perhaps you could repeat this use case for that idea there as well.