Application Deployment

Once we are happy with the way our system works we make the system operational. To move the system into production right click on the business space version 1.1 (the state of which is now “Under Test”) in the tree section of the Configuration Tool and choose the “Publish” command from the popup menu. The state of the business version changes to “Current”, indicating that our application is now ready to be used in production. The fictitious customer data we used for testing will not be transferred into the production database. This database starts with blank data.

We can login into the production system using the web browser in a similar way to the testing mode, except that the Test Mode flag on the login form should be cleared. The appearance of the production system will be identical to the test system, including the configured menu items and all other visual settings.

Since staff members will be using the system, we need to register these members so they can access the system. Aware IM provides a business object called RegularUser for the registration of users who can login into the application. The object has two essential attributes: login name and password. Click on the “Standard” menu item to see its sub-menu, and then click on the ‘New Object’. Select object RegularUser from the list in the main area of the screen and click on the “Submit button”. Aware IM displays a form for the new RegularUser object showing fields for the login name and password attributes. Enter both values for the first staff member being registered and click on the “Submit button”. The first staff member is now registered. You can repeat the registration steps for each staff member who needs to access the system.

Now the registered staff members can log into the system using their own login name and password. Since they are going to do it on a day-to-day basis you can optimize their login process by choosing a login option where they do not have to enter the business space name (see the “Login” section. They can also add the login address to the list of favorites maintained by the browser so they do not need to type this address every time in the browser address bar.

The process CongratulateBirthdayCustomers will start automatically at the time we specified when configuring the system. No manual intervention is required.

Our system is ready for operation.