Promotion from Staging to Production

For a description of the promotion process and the use of Staging and Production repositories, see How EnterWorks Works: Promotion and Package Promotion.

To view the differences between a record in Staging and the same record in Production, see Review Difference from Production.

Records can be promoted from Staging to Production repositories manually or through Package Promotions.

Manual Promotion

There are several ways to manually promote records from the New UI:

The method of obtaining configuration options for a promotion depends on the nature of the promotion.

  • Promoting using the Promote Selected Records or Promote Saved Set options: configuration options are obtained from the EnterWorks database or the shared configuration properties.

  • Promoting using the Promote All Records option: The UI will prompt the user to enter the configuration properties.

Promote Selected Records

To promote one or more selected records:

  1. Open the desired repository in a Repository View. Open the Feature Sidebar, select the desired folder, and select the desired repository. The repository will be opened in a Repository View.
  2. Select one or more records to be promoted.
  3. Open the More dropdown list from the Repository View’s Activity Bar and select Promote Selected Records.
  4. Configuration options will obtained from the EnterWorks database or the shared configuration properties. The selected records will be promoted. A message will appear at the bottom of the screen that states the completion status of the promotion.

Promote a Saved Set

To promote a Saved Set of records, either use the Promote Saved Set option or the Promote All Records options (see Promote All Records in a Repository). To promote using the Promote Save Set option:

  1. Open the desired repository in a Repository View. Open the Feature Sidebar, select the desired folder, and select the desired repository. The repository will be opened in a Repository View.
  2. Open the desired repository in a Repository View. Open the repository’s Saved Set Sidebar by clicking on the Saved Set button on the Repository View's Activity Bar.
  3. If a Saved Set containing the records to be promoted does not already exist, create it.
  4. Apply the Saved Set by clicking the Saved Set’s name, open the More dropdown list from the Repository View’s Activity Bar, and select Promote Saved Set.
  5. The records will be promoted. A message will appear at the bottom of the screen that states the completion status of the promotion.

Promote All Records in a Repository

All the records in a repository can be manually promoted from a Repository View. To do so:

  1. Open the desired repository in a Repository View. Open the Feature Sidebar, select the desired folder, and select the desired repository. The repository will be opened in a Repository View.
  2. Open the More dropdown list from the Repository View’s Activity Bar. Select Promote All Records. A Promote Job window will open.
  3. Select the Promotion Configuration to be used. The list of Promotion Configurations is drawn from the EnterWorks database or the shared configuration properties.
  4. To promote all new or changed records, select the All New or Changed Records radio button.
  5. To promote only those records in a Saved Set, select the All Records from Saved Set radio button and select the desired Saved Set from the list.
  6. Select the desired promotion type.
  7. Select the desired validation option.
  8. Click OK. A background job will be launched that will validate and promote the designated records from the designated repository.