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Share templates across workareas

Lex

I've searched and found a previous thread on this topic, but I thought I'd ask if there's any other alternatives. The previous suggestion when having multiple workareas that all share common templates is to have one workarea where you maintain the templates, submit them to staging, and then do a get latest in each of the workareas so they all have the most current version of templates. This is fine if you have only a handful of workareas, but what about when you have 50 or even 100 workareas? Going into each one and doing a get latest is not a very optimal solution. Is there a good way to automate this process? Or is there another way to share a common set of templates between multiple workareas? Thanks!

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Yukka

Or is there another way to share a common set of templates between multiple workareas? Thanks!

DCTs: use inlines to include your template
PTs: use Perl to include your template

Regards,
Oliver

nipper

I've searched and found a previous thread on this topic, but I thought I'd ask if there's any other alternatives. The previous suggestion when having multiple workareas that all share common templates is to have one workarea where you maintain the templates, submit them to staging, and then do a get latest in each of the workareas so they all have the most current version of templates. This is fine if you have only a handful of workareas, but what about when you have 50 or even 100 workareas? Going into each one and doing a get latest is not a very optimal solution. Is there a good way to automate this process? Or is there another way to share a common set of templates between multiple workareas? Thanks!

I am a little confused here. Are you looking to share templates on the same branch across many workareas ? Create the template in 1 WA and do a get latest. You can also do the following which allows you to prevent access to the DCT and TPL for the users.

If you want the same template in multiple branches then for your DCT use something like this:

[html]

[/html]
The datacapture.ipl pushed out XML for the DCT.

and this in your PT

[html]

[/html]

Adam Stoller

I've searched and found a previous thread on this topic, but I thought I'd ask if there's any other alternatives. The previous suggestion when having multiple workareas that all share common templates is to have one workarea where you maintain the templates, submit them to staging, and then do a get latest in each of the workareas so they all have the most current version of templates. This is fine if you have only a handful of workareas, but what about when you have 50 or even 100 workareas? Going into each one and doing a get latest is not a very optimal solution. Is there a good way to automate this process? Or is there another way to share a common set of templates between multiple workareas? Thanks!

The responses about using inlines and perl inclusions or iwpt_include's works nicely in this scenario because once you've created the "shell" DCT or PT - in the branch / workareas - it should not need to get modified anymore - only the included part will get modified and that can be somewhere else entirely (a different branch).

If you don't go with that kind of setup and have actual DCTs and/or PTs in a given branch - then you can use the iwupdate CLT to forcibly push the update from staging into all the workareas on that branch -- it's the same thing as GetLatest - but being driven programmatically and for a specific set of files rather than the entire workarea.

Lex

I am a little confused here. Are you looking to share templates on the same branch across many workareas ? Create the template in 1 WA and do a get latest. You can also do the following which allows you to prevent access to the DCT and TPL for the users.

Sorry, perhaps I wrote in haste. You are correct: I'd like to share templates on the same branch across many workareas. The get latest thing is problematic because there will be many, many workareas. I'm concerned that relying on a manual process could result in one or more workareas being missed and having outdated templates.

If you want the same template in multiple branches then for your DCT use something like this:

[html]

[/html]
The datacapture.ipl pushed out XML for the DCT.

and this in your PT

[html]

[/html]

I think I'll try this approach. Thanks for the tip.

Lex

If you don't go with that kind of setup and have actual DCTs and/or PTs in a given branch - then you can use the iwupdate CLT to forcibly push the update from staging into all the workareas on that branch -- it's the same thing as GetLatest - but being driven programmatically and for a specific set of files rather than the entire workarea.

Ah, excellent. Thanks for that option as well. Now I'll have a couple things to pull out of the bag of tricks. Thanks, guys.

Lex

I just wanted to follow up on this. I've implemented the <inline command="x"> method of sharing a template across branches and it works great. In fact, it allowed me to do things in the .ipl that generates the DCT that I was previously using FormAPI to do. Just wanted to say thanks again for the tips and suggestions.