Saving user-defined assets before you reset the test environment

You can use IBM® FileNet® Deployment Manager to save assets from the target object store before you reset the IBM Business Automation Workflow development environment project area.

About this task

When you click Reset Test Environment in Case Builder the target object store and its associated connection point are reinitialized, and all user-defined assets are deleted. The project area target object store is restored to the state after any add-ons were configured. You can save existing assets in the design object store and automatically restore the assets to the target object store after you reset the test environment. For example, document folders, property templates, and custom object subclasses can be saved and restored.
Important: Save the user-defined assets before you reset the test environment or your user-defined assets will be deleted and cannot be restored. User-defined assets that are objects in the document class and include content must be exported by using FileNet Deployment Manager and saved externally to disk. These assets must be manually reimported into the target object store for the project area by using FileNet Deployment Manager after the reset test environment operation completes. Workflow system configuration assets that are not created in IBM Business Automation Workflow, such as component queues, must be exported and imported by using the Process Configuration Console that is accessible from the Content Platform Engine administration client.

Procedure

To save user-defined assets before you reset the test environment:

  1. Create and save an export manifest of the assets that you want to save from your target object store in the test environment:
    1. Start FileNet Deployment Manager.
    2. Click Environments > environment definition for the environment definition that you want to export assets from.
    3. Right-click Export Manifests and click New > Export manifest.
    4. Open the manifest, click the Add Assets to the export manifest editor icon, and select the assets that you want to save from the target object store.
    5. Specify the export manifest file name, the output folder, and the deploy dataset name.
    6. Click OK.
      The export starts.
  2. Add the exported deploy dataset to the DeployDataset set document object in the reinitialization folder for the case management design object store:
    1. In IBM Administration Console for Content Platform Engine, select the case management design object store.
    2. Click Browse > Root Folder > IBM Business Automation Workflow > Datasets > DevEnvReinitInfo > dev_env_connection_definition.
    3. On the dev_env_connection_definition page, click DeployDataset in the Containment Name column.
    4. On the DeployDataset page, click Actions > Checkin, checkout, cancel > Exclusive checkout, and then click Actions > Checkin, checkout, cancel > Checkin.
    5. In the Checkin document window, add the exported deploy dataset XML files. Click Add to navigate to the deploy dataset folder that you selected when you exported the manifest in FileNet Deployment Manager, such as …\IBM\FileNet\ContentEngine\tools\deploy\P8DeploymentData\Environments\environment name folder \Assets\export manifest name folder, and attach the following XML files:
      • Catalog.xml
      • deployDataset1.xml
      Restriction: Do not change the names of the Catalog.xml and deployDataset1.xml files. If you change the names, then Case Builder cannot read the files.
    6. Click Checkin.

What to do next

Notify the business analyst that the object store is ready for use with the imported data.