Sanity check (LS WF -> diff branches to diff servers)

nipper

OK, I have a TS server pushing to LS Server A and DB A.

We have another branch coming live that will do to a different DB and different LS server)

From what I have determined so far, I add another bean:

bean id="customer.teamsite.DeploymentService.OpenDeploy.DeploymentTargetMap" parent="teamsite.DeploymentService.OpenDeploy.DeploymentTargetMap"

with the new target for OD.

Then in the WF definition I use the different class name in the deploytask. If I want to use the same WF then I need to calculate the bean id instead of hard coding it.

Sound correct ?

Then my issue is what about the DB ? We have 2 external servers, one is local (hosting A with a local DB for LS), the second is hosted somewhere, we cannot share the DB. So I need to push to a different DB as well.

Tips/pointers/RTFMs appreciated

Andy

vpatel

Andy: what you outlined could be one way to do it. What is the DB situation in preview (SP) for your use case?

Please keep in mind that PLC WF is more or less like a convenience thing for people to use -- it is a sample WF for the vanilla OOTB install. Generally speaking it is fairly well written and it is fairly configurable. Will it cover every use case? Probably not. At times it may make sense to write your own custom WF based on PLC or from scratch. In the past I've seen a fairly complex implementation (multiple sites with interestingly arbitrary isolation of sites within each instance of LS) where they had one site per branch and one DB per site. That is one DB per site for preview (SP) and one DB per site for production (LS) -- relatively easy to do in LS Runtime but in SP preview !?

In any case, I decided to use PLC but stripped out the deployment task all together and implemented a custom deployment task that was fairly sleek and easy to manage.
Could I have done it with the OOTB PLC deployment task? Probably.
Was it optimal to do it with a custom deployment task? Absolutely.

Again, I absolutely recommend OOTB PLC WF whenever possible but in some cases it may not be the best choice :-)!

My $0.02!