Specifying the activation parameters
Once you have logged on to the destination server, the second Promote Project dialog opens. You use this dialog to specify activation parameters. The Participants frame is displayed only if the project has already been activated with sample management.
If the project already exists on the destination server, a message explaining this is displayed at the top of the dialog. You can continue activation and overwrite the existing project files, or cancel it leaving the existing project files intact.
1 In Status after activation, select the status that the project will have once it has been activated.
2 In Activate notes, type any notes you want to make about this activation.
3 In Groups/Roles, select the roles that will have access to the project on the destination server. If the project already exists on that server, the check boxes show the current permissions for that project on that server. If it does not, Promote Project selects the roles that have access to the project on the originating server.
4 Select Promote Subfolders to indicate whether subfolders will be promoted with the project files. This option is enabled by default. Turning this option off should only be done if the project does not require subfolders, or if the project already exists and the subfolder content has not changed.
5 If the project has participant records that you want to copy as part of the activation procedure, use the boxes in the Participants frame to specify where the records can be found and where they should be placed. Note that your UNICOM Intelligence administrator can customize the behavior of the fields in this frame so that, for example, you cannot change the names of the server, database, and sample table, or you cannot choose which queues to copy from.
▪In Server, choose the name of the database server; the default is the database server for the destination cluster. If the server’s name does not appear in the list, click Enter name and type the name when prompted to do so.
▪In Database, select the name of the sample database in which the sample table should be created; the default is a database with the same name as on the originating server. If you want to create a new database, click New and enter the database name when prompted to do so.
▪In Table, select the name of the sample table to which the participant records should be added; the default is a table with the same name as on the originating server. If you would prefer to create a new table, click New and enter the table name when prompted to do so.
▪Select Copy participant records if you want to copy participant records (from the selected queues) from the local database server onto the destination computer’s database server. Note that if the sample table already exists on the destination computer, only new records will be copied. (This matches the behavior of the Participants activity that uploads only records with new IDs.)
▪Deselecting Copy participant records forces all participants records (not just those from the selected queues) to be copied from the local database server onto the destination computer’s database server.
▪In From queues, use Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click to select the queues from which to copy records. The default is to copy records from the FRESH queue only.
6 Click Activate to start the activation procedure.
A progress dialog appears. The messages help you find problems if activation fails.
Promote Project tries to create or update the schema (definition) of the sample table on the destination server so that it matches the schema of the table on the originating server. You can set Site > Servers > <server name> > Applications > websitetositeactivate > Applications > DisplayBrowseServerDatabaseTable to true to select a different table name. Promote Project sends activation requests to the destination activation query.
Promote Project does not show promotion results, but you can check the promotion results from the destination server’s Activation History activity.
The activation process checks that all interviewing servers have the same version of the ActivateServer.dll component installed as is installed on the computer you are working on. If it finds a mismatch, activation fails at that point and you will have mismatched project files on the interviewing servers. When this happens, you can usually continue by manually copying the project files to the servers that have not been updated. However, the best solution is to ensure that all computers in the cluster are running the same version of UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer.
When activation is complete, Promote Project displays the ‘activate’ dialog giving URLs for running interviews on the destination server.
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