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IPA - Upload Process Automation

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Maestro
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11/14/2016 8:04 PM

We are trying to automate our promotion process. IPA is causing us a roadblock b/c of the need to upload the process in designer. We were wondering if anyone knew of a way to automate this OR of a webservice we could possibly leverage. Thanks.

 

kflores01
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11/14/2016 8:23 PM

You want to automate with IPA, but, you don't want to upload the flow?

Woozy
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11/14/2016 8:59 PM
Hi Maestro - there is a command-line utility named "uploadprocess" included with Landmark. It will allow you to promote a single flow or a folder of flows. I experimented with using this and it seems to work just fine for uploading flows.

The only reason we haven't automated the promotion yet is because we require a comment with each upload, and this utility does not include that functionality (at least in our version - LMRK 10.1.1.19). If someone were motivated enough, I suppose they could script something to upload the flow and then use dataimport to update the pfiflowversion.comment, but we have not pursued that.

This utility also will not populate the pfiflowdefinition.description which we populate with every new flow. Again, this could be scripted if it was important to you.

I hope this helps.
Kelly
Kelly Meade
J. R. Simplot Company
Boise, ID
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11/15/2016 12:44 PM
@Woozy ... thank you, EXACTLY what I was looking for. I truly appreciate the assist.