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Jan 30, 2007 at 02:23 PM

PCD versioning and automatic backup (challenging)

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Hi,

I am currently do an investigation into our transport system for EP and there are a couple of custom changes I would like to do.

1. PCD Versioning and ability to retrieve old versions of a PCD object

2. Automatic backup of PCD objects. Either complete or connected to a transport package (only backups what is in the transport package)

I think PCD versioning will be very difficult to implement. I looked at the raw PCD browser, and found the only relevant field to be com.sap.portal.pcd.gl.LastChangedAt which is the date the object was last changed.

Automatic backup should be easier. Daniel has written some good weblogs on the PCD (/people/daniel.wroblewski/blog) so I should find some information there, and the transport export functionality should easily be decompiled for the inner workings of it. Perhaps the backup will be an iview similar to import transport package only that it create a backup file of the objects which exist in both the package and the current version of the PCD.

Anyone done something like this before?

Dagfinn