Hi there
I can use the Role Upload functionality in NW2004s quite nicely, but still have some questions which perhaps someone out there can answer for me:
1. The role upload seems to be a manual process ... is there a way to automate this?
2. If I make changes to the role in the portal, like setting the mergeID's, how can I upload changes to the structure of the role from BW back into the portal and still keep all my merge settings ... as a reference, for our current project, there are 10 roles defined in BW and each of those roles has a combination of 8 folders that appear on the 2nd level navigation. Once they have been imported, I need to merge all the top level nodes, as well as all the 2nd level nodes, which takes some time ... I clearly don't want to be doing this each time there is a change to the role in BW
3. As an addition to the above question, the actual structure of the role is likely to remain pretty constant, but what will change is that web templates will be published to the BW role, and then the role uploaded in Portal ... If I leave the checkbox "overwrite existing content" off, then my role structure should not be altered (will keep merge settins), but will the iviews be automatically created and uploaded?
4. Is the Role upload even functionality I should be looking at long term to ensure that BW and Portal remain synchronised, or is this more a tool that is used once in the beginning and then any further synchronisation should become a manual process?
I look forward to some helpful responses.
Cheers,
Andrew