Rollback to a previous edition

What is the best way to rollback to a previous edition on the deployed site? One way can be editing the deployment configuration XML file to point to a previous edition. But is there any better way of doing it where user gets to select which edition he would like to deploy?

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jbyork

Build a custom CGI that takes input from the user. Issue the OD command with a config. file that expects parameter substitution.

wailing

I know this is an old posting, but just curious:
what if, after rollback, your users must use that older EDITION's version of the files?

How would you reconcile that with the STAGING?
iwupdate a temp workarea and do a one-time force-submit and overwrite?

Has anybody tried this?

rgds,
Rika

Gregg Faus

I wrote an edition deployment script a while back that I referenced in this post.

See the post for code and any issues. It will allow you to deploy new editions and rollback to previous ones as well. I'm hoping to add "doDeletes" functionality where it can remove files which don't exist in the staging area anymore.