I am developing a universe which will be given to different customers to work with. this universe will probably be customized by the customer, by adding additional tables and additional objects. Is there a way to update their universe with changes I do on my developed universe without over riding the additional tables and objects added by the customers?
Regards,
Ronen Baran, eBusiness Project Manager
Tecnomatix LTD.
Mail to : rbaran@tecnomatix.com
Telephone : 09-9594959
In the past I have had to deal with a similar situation, the agreed solution for our environment was as follows;
A core universe is stored in the repository
This universe was sent to each ‘unique’ customer
Customers bespoke the original universe to their own needs
When the designer of the core universe needs to make amendments to a
bespoke version of the universe, the bespoke designer must send his latest ‘live’ universe to the core designer
The core designer makes the changes required to the bespoke
universe, then renames it with an name that defines it as bespoke to that customer, then exports it to the repository * The amended bespoke universe is then returned to sender
The remote designer can choose to either redirect data providers to
this ‘new’ universe, or rename it with the prior bespoke universe name and replace it according to their change control mechanism.
If remote customers\users are members of the user groups defined on the repository, then this procedure was further strengthened by using the Supervisor module to remove their ability to export a universe.
This procedure worked exceptionally well for all concerned, although with a large number of distinct customers it may be necessary to produce a formal agreement for turnaround times for universe exchange and modification.
I hope this is of some help to you.
PJ
Paul Jarrett
DSS Developer
Gamar Limited
United Kingdom
I am developing a universe which will be given to different customers to work with. this universe will probably be customized by the customer, by adding additional tables and additional objects. Is there a way to update their universe with changes I do on my developed universe without over riding the additional tables and objects added by the customers?
In Designer50en.pdf read about linked universes - you will be glad you did!
You might be able to avoid a lot of headaches involved with trying to stay in sync with unique customer changes by using the ‘Kernel’ methodology.
I do not know if linked universes are an option with 4.x