GCI Power Tools for Deployments Version 5.5

IT departments are currently faced with the daunting task of integrating and troubleshooting new modules and functionality in Open Text Content Server (OTCS) instances that are fully operational. This process usually includes moving the application from a development environment to the testing environment and then to the production environment, or merging disparate instances into one. The current method for accommodating this migration usually entails countless hours recreating taxonomies and reconfiguring categories, forms, web reports, and workflow maps. The margin for error is considerable in this labor intensive procedure.

GCI Power Tools for Deployments solves this problem by exporting the entire product object structure into a set of XML files, and then supports moving them into the new environment together with recreating the entire structure in the new OTCS instance. Power Tools for Deployments also supports the ordering of the imported objects so that dependent objects are created in the correct order, and there is also an option of keeping object audit trails between OTCS instances.

Circular Livelink Category dependencies are also maintained in GCI Power Tools for Deployments. If the category has not been created at the time an object that uses that category is created, the information is cached until the category is imported and relinked. Forms and Form Templates can be exported and imported maintaining not only the template links, but also the view links. Form data can be exported across systems as well.

GCI Power Tools for Deployments also solves the problem of moving workflow maps from one system to another: workflow maps are updated to relink all forms, categories, objects, and attachments. GCI Power Tools for Deployments also supports exporting user and group items created during development and recreates them on the new system, as well as remapping the user IDs (provided the names and domains are the same).

In addition to deployment management, GCI Power Tools for Deployments also facilitates testing and troubleshooting objects in Livelink that were heretofore unable to be separated for external analysis. Problem objects can now be exported by GCI Power Tools for Deployments and sent to specialized technical support where these object structures can be easily recreated and tested.

GCI Power Tools for Deployments is also ideal for creating application snapshots inside of a code management system—the ideal way to version control your OTCS ECM system modifications. GCI Power Tools for Deployments is compatible with OTCS versions 9.1.0.4, 9.2, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7 and Open Text Content Server 2010.

3/17/11 Update: GCI Power Tools for Deployments 5.5.0 now released. PTD 5.5 is compatible with Open Text Content Server 2010, and supports all the items for import and export that Open Text supports on Content Server 2010. There were also 15 bugs/patches integrated. GCI Power Tools Migration Manager 1.2.0, which was released in 2010, is also compatible with Open Text Content Server 2010 and PTD 5.5.

For more information please view the two-part online demo:

(part one)

(part two)

Also please download our GCI Power Tools for Deployments document ,
visit EnterpriseContentMigration.info and/or contact us.

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