Automation of upgrading applications - copying applications applying roles in IAM

Hi Hugo,

Within my team, to create a deployment package we do make use of the Post synchronization code to do some automatic things for us. As we work on the IAM application we need to make sure a server is present in the table server, so we add it if not present. besides that we indeed use the task_create_gui_app_from_gui_appl task to copy an existing application to a new one - in our case copying IAM's previous version to the new version. We then also update some information in the gui_appl table. If there's no entry in gui_appl, we create one by code, while also inserting a translation for it. Thereafter we remove the old version by utilizing the task_delete_project_vrs task.

The Post synchronization code is very handy for deploying applications and doing things automatically.

In your case, it would then be:

1. exec task_create_gui_appl_from_gui_appl
2. When copying the application from the previous version, it also copies the roles if you want: 

   

   3. I guess you mean Apply roles to database?

      

      This is a GUI code task so sadly not available to execute from Post synchronization script.
   4. Still need to apply roles? Because copying roles from the previous version is probably enough

Hope this helps!