Apr 21, 2008 6:46 PM
Utility to move artifacts from one environment to another
The way that we are utilizing our Contour environments is basically a pre-prod/test environment and a production environment. Users setup their project and setup their forms in the pre-prod environment to make sure that the artifacts contain the information they want, users find them intuitive, etc... After they've gotten that all ironed-out they need to move the items to the production site. Right now, that's a manual process that involves creating the same form in production for each of the artifacts.
It would be really great if there were a way to connect up to the pre-prod & production databases and be able to select the artifacts that should be moved for the users. I'm thinking of a utility interface with checkbox lists of the artifacts that are in the pre-prod system, so that the user can move over one or many form definitions. I'd even be OK with not being able to import artifacts from pre-prod if they already exist in production, since figuring out if the change from pre-prod would trounce on the current artifact would be quite a feat.
Thanks!