Kudos to fellow Product Trainer Glenn McGinnis, who is guest writer for this month.
The Change and Transport System (CTS) is an application within the DSP framework that provides developers the means to move objects within DSP between server instances. For example, one might wish to develop a new WebApp in a DEV (development) instance, then transfer to a PROD (production) instance, once the WebApp is ready to go live. No matter the case, the CTS application is an incredibly usefully and efficient tool, which reduces the workload most projects will experience. In this how-to guide, you’ll be taken through the process of moving a WebApp between two server instances. For the purpose of this guide, we wish to move a WebApp that has been developed in a DEV instance to a PROD instance. Both instances reside on two separate servers.
- Add instances for both DEV and PROD for both servers
- Sys Admin>Configuration>Setup>Instances
- Ensure the website address is “http://10.0.0.XX:81/dsp/"
- Name both servers
- Sys Admin>Configuration>Parameters “Instance”
- Choose either DEV or PROD as applicable
- Build CTS package
- Navigate to DEV server
- Sys Admin>CTS>Build
- Provide description
- Select “Items”
- Add
- CranSoft – Data Source
- Keys: WebApp DataSource name
- CranSoft – WebApp
- Keys: WebApp name
- CranSoft – Data Source
- Click “Build Packing List”
- Export CTS package to PROD server
- Navigate to DEV server
- Navigate to >Archives
- Click “Export”
- Click “Edit”
- Select Target Instance “PROD”
- Click “Save”
- Click “Export”
- Make backup of DEV sql database
- Restore database of the backup on PROD sql server
- Import CTS package to PROD server
- Navigate to PROD server
- Sys Admin>CTS>Archives
- Click “Detect Archive” if CTS package does not appear
- Click “Install”
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