When you are developing a Managed Reporting application, you are working with files that are controlled by the WebFOCUS Client and stored in a centralized location called the Managed Reporting Repository. There is no decentralized local developer copy of the managed reporting repository or files. Regardless of whether the Developer is using the Dashboard, the Managed Reporting Java applet or Developer Studio tools, the process entails retrieving a copy of the files, making changes to the file, and saving the files back to the repository.

All Managed Reporting developers work in a common repository simultaneously and move their application components to a common test environment. Managed Reporting enables two or more developers to work on different parts of the application simultaneously, without affecting each other. However, when two or more developers are working on files in a single Domain, the responsibility is on the developers to coordinate their changes. For example, if two developers are working on the same report file at the same time, the last one saving the file overwrites any changes the first developer may have made.