deploy to staging and production

prasadanand

Hi guys,
I need to write a workflow where ..i need to write external tasks to deploy the files to staging, production and publish those files ...

can i use the existing wft_opendeploy.ipl to execute teh external tasks or do i need to write them from new....if so can you tell me the level of effort that goes into..it.

if there are any snippets of what some body has done can you please attach so that i can get a feel of how it works.

Adam Stoller

I've never used that particular script - it was designed to go along with the configurable workflows and as many things that are intended to be configurable - it tends to try to solve many different possible scenarios and thus contains extra code to do all that.

Is this bad? No.
Is it necessary for your usage? Maybe

My guess is that you could figure out the various configuration options and try to use it "as-is", or you could use it as the basis for writing your own, less generic, script, or you could write your own if you have a good grasp on your requirements and how you would do the steps manually.

I apologize for this being kind of a wishy-washy answer, but the choices are there, it's ultimately up to you as to which direction you want to go.

As in most cases, I strongly advocate "design" before "implement" - especially if you haven't done anything like this before (if you have done stuff like this before, you can usually design and implement at the same time and be reasonably well off).

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)