Yes it is. But let me ask you this: are the configuration files being edited by your users? If so then how do you plan on updating the files (complete replace?)? If not, then why is there a separate user-configurable folder?
Perform an update on a user defined location
Our software consist out of two locations. An application folder and a configuration folder which is specified by the user.
Is it possible to create an update that updates the files in the application folder and updates the files in this user defined configuration folder?
Not all files in this configuration folder will be updated because as you already mentioned there are files that will be edited by the user (those will not be updated). We also store our reports (every report is a separate file) and plug-ins (also separate files) in this folder. These are the files need to be updated when deploying a new release. They are not going to be edited by the user but next to these files we store the report and plugin settings. These files contain all customized reports and plugins settings.
The reason for this separate config folder is that in some situations we have multiple application folders (e.g. when deployed on multiple citrix servers) that all point to the same configuration folder. An other example is that some companies would like to make a deviation between application data and configurable/user defined data.
I hope this gives a better insight in the functionality I am searching for
I hope this gives a better insight in the functionality I am searching for
Yes it does.
As of wyBuild 2.6.4 you can update files in a custom folder, but it requires you to execute a simple bat file that copies over the files from the temp folder to a custom folder.
However, we want to make this easier. That is, we want to make it possible without using bat files. Can you tell me where the location is stored (i.e. registry, or internally in a separate config file)?
We'll try to add an easy way to update custom folders in wyBuild 2.6.8.
First of all thanks for the fast replies.
The location is stored in the file "config.jar" located in the application\lib folder but if we could give this custom location as a parameter to the update executable it would be suitable for us.
I think that's how we'll have to do it. By passing custom commandline options to wyUpdate.
We'll shoot for early/mid-September release for this feature. In the meantime, if you want, you can use the executing a bat file from the temp folder solution.
Thanks, I will start by looking at the executing a bat file but I cannot wait for this new functionality.