Promoting Content - Endeca

Lifecycle

Authoring

Previewing

Live

What is promoted

Content

Pages

Templates

Phrases

Rules

Thesaurus

Keyword redirects

Promotion methodsDirect Usually within staging

File-based From staging to production

Where to configure?

Assembler.properties

Edit the store.factory settingsecrStoreFactory

fileStoreFactory

Repository.configuration.path - location where the content is extracted to when you promote content

Assembler-context.xml

Check Administrative section

Check bean id="filestorefactory"

Need to restart Endeca Tools Services

Promote content script - from stg to prod

Promotes content

Promotes search configuration

Ifcr.exportConfigSnapshot - exports search config from workbench in your stg env

Ifcr.exportApplication - exports content and content config

Livedgraphcluster.updateconfigfromsnapshot - import search config to mdex in prod

Assemblerupdate.updateassemblers - tells all assemblers in your prod env to update content and content config

Uses config in Workbenchconfig.xml

How to promote from stg to prod in isolated network using file-based method

Workbenchconfig.xml is different in both stg and prod

Manually move content and config to shared location

Promote content in staging env is used to export

Comment or delete Livedgraphcluster.updateconfigfromsnapshot

Comment or delete Assemblerupdate.updateAssemblers

Need ifcr.exportconfigsnapshot

Need ifcr.exportApplication

Promote content in prod is used to import

Comment or delete ifcr.exportconfigsnapshot

Comment or delete ifcr.exportapplication

Need livedgraphcluster.updateconfigfromsnapshot

Need Assemblerupdate.updateAssemblers

How to promote using direct method?

Edit assembler-context.xmlFind the ecrStoreFactory entry and change isAuthoring value to false

Edit workbenchConfiguration.xml

Uncomment ifcr.promoteFromAuthoringToLive

Delete or comment the lines calling out exportConfigSnapshot, exportApplication, updateConfigFromSnapshot, and updateAssemblers

Content export file format

Workbench content ECR content is extracted to zip file - JSON

Content - rule-based

Pages - static, URL-based content

Templates - structure and content configuration

Services - node is used internally for merchandising content configued within experience manager

Search ConfigurationSearch configuration is extracted from ECR to zip file - XML

Appname.merch.xml

Appname.merch-rule-group.content.xml

Appname.merchzones.xml

Appname.phrases.xml

Appname.redirects.xml

Appname.thesaurus.xml