Workflow & OpenDeploy Parameterizing

croot

Hello -

We are currently using TeamSite 6.7.1 & OpenDeploy 1.6.1 on Windows 2000 Server to manage content and deploy to multiple websites (managed by apache & using virtual hosts). What we'd like to do is parameterize a single OD script to be used for multiple websites. For example, we'd have a few lines in the OD scripts with parameters. Example:

...
targetFilesystem area="/app/htdocs/external/$srcarea^/" /
...

We have branches/staging areas for each srcarea and would like to use the same OD script for each area. What we are struggling to figure out is how to pass through the $srcarea to the OD script from the workflow.

Workflow integrates OD by updating and changing the file "wft_opendeploy.cfg" under $IW_Home\local\config\wft\solutions. I have added lines (in the following example) to the configuration file. The workflow calls the OD script just fine, but the $srcarea variable is not being passed through.

Example:
branchName=/default/main/external/greencityawards/,deployName=/external/external_to_http,useNode=CMS,dst=greencityawards

A few questions:
1) Is this the right away to approach this problem?
2) Does anyone know how to make this work or has done this in the past?

I relialize this could be accomplished using an external task rather than an open deploy task in the workflow, however we'd like to use the open deploy task if at all possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciate,

Chris

nipper

I tend to implement the quickest solution, rather than trying to get another one working. So in this case I run an external task.

Could a deployment task do what you are asking ? Possibly. Is it worth your time trying to figure it out ?

Now you may be doing what I do which is implement one and then post a question to see if the 2nd can be done.

Andy