moving files over multiple staging areas

Hi,
I want to keep common staging area but having different branches.Since teamsite creates staging area per branch,I need to move files from one staging area to my common staging area.Will it be possible through workflow or by any other way.
My structure is as follows

mainbranch
->staging
-subbraanch
staging
-subsubbranch
-->staging
-file1
-file2

Question here is that can it be possible to move files from subsubbranch to mainbranch.

Please guide.
regards,
Vikas R Karandikar

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Migrateduser

yes, you'd use a workflow updatetask (or iwupdate CLT in a script) to copy files from the staging areas of your sub branches to a workarea of your main branch, followed by a submit on the main branch.

To make this an automatic process, you can either modify the default_submit.wft to always do this following a submit on a sub-branch, or you can create a trigger script using iwat to fire whenever a submit occurs. The latter method is more inclusive as it will work whether a process submit or a direct submit is being performed.

bw

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gzevin

or... add an external task with iwupdate stuff after submit task.. It is a flexible solution that will let you easily modify the process if you change the branching structure or the process

Greg Zevin
Interwoven Consultant/Architect

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vikask

Thanks for replying and giving me the solution.

From your reply it is clear that it is possible to move or copy files from subbranch staging area to main branch staging area,but is it possible to move files to subbranch of branch to different branch.

ie as shown below

mainbranch1------------------------------------to here
-staging
somebranchx
-staging
mainbranch2
-staging
subbranch
-staging
subsubbranch
-staging---------------------------from here

Also if I am doing this by using workflow then is it necessary to have access to staging area of both the branches?
Are there any security issues involved in doing this?

Please guide.
Vikas Karandikar

Adam Stoller

You can copy or move files from any TeamSite area to any TeamSite workarea - once the file is within a workarea, you can then submit it to stating and then publish it in an edition. You cannot move files directly from one staging area to another staging area unless you go through a workarea on the receiving side first.

A workflow's updatetask takes an areavpath and a srcareavpath - the former must be the vpath to the receiving workarea, the latter can be any TeamSite area.

If you are just copying files from one area to another, you should only need read-access rights on the source-side but you will need more rights on the target-side of the copy, especially if you want to submit those copied files into staging.

If you want to move the files, then you would need pretty much full access on both sides (source and target) as you would be changing both and would need to submit those changes on both ends.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)