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This is where the power of IguanaX comes in . The - you have the ability to customize and edit components to do what you need or write entirely new components from scratch.

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titleSTEP 1: Make sure you have Git and your Bitbucket account set up

See Git Credentials and Setting up Bitbucket Access. You only need to this when you set up your Iguana accessTo leverage repositories, set up your IguanaX Git Settings to leverage a Git provider.

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titleSTEP 2: Create a component

Use the workflow from Create a Component.

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The EDIT ORIGINAL button will be disabled since most users won’t have write access to our templates. If you create your own templates and add them to Collections, depending on your git user permissions within your team, you may have access to edit the original component project.

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titleSTEP 3: Click Edit on the component card, then MAKE A COPY AND EDIT to open the Translator editor
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titleSTEP 4: You're in the Translator! To backup your changes in a git repo you'll need to click on the Setup Repository

The cloud icon allows you to set an upstream repository to push and pull changes from.

It's a convenient way to store and collaborate on projects.

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For Bitbucket we have made the flow a little easier.
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titleSTEP 5: Now you can assign or set up a new git repo for your component
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The middle area is for convenient access to set up an instance in bitbucket.

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titleSet up a repository in Bitbucket
configure how your component will be stored in Git

With the Repository Management Screen you can set a component to be stored in Git as a self-contained repository or as a plain folder within your Git Instance repository. Use one of the three options to configure your component:

  1. Turn to a plain folder

  2. Create and link a repository

  3. Connect to an existing repository

Using a repository is the recommended configuration.

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titleSTEP 6: Set up a repository

You can select the Owner and fill out the name for the repository. IguanaX will create the repository in Bitbucket your Git service if it does not already exist.

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titleSet up a repository in another platform like GitHub or GItlabs or a local repository

For an example of how to do this switch to this page:

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You will get a warning message if the repository already exists, click confirm to connect to the existing repository.