How to move process chains from dev to production

[Former Member]

Hello,

I almost finish testing proces chain on my davelopement system and now want to move it on production system.

I have heard that transporting PCs between systems can be problematic.

What should I take care of and do I need to perform any additional steps when doing this.

I have read somewhere that buiding chain manually on example of davelopment one is good solution. Is it true?

Thanks in advance for response,

Andrzej

[Former Member]

Hi Andrzej,

from the maintenance screen of your chain, click on the button with the truck, it will lead you to the transport connection to put everything you need into a request. Problems while transporting chains are just if you have a start process scheduled to immediate start. This will force the chain to start right after it is imported in the target system. So set the chain to a future date temporarly or to start via meta chain or to start via event.

Siggi

[Former Member]

Dont forget to reschdule ur process chain in start process after transport

Reagrds,

Rohin

[Former Member]

I am not able to "Activate and schedule" the process Chains after transporting my process chains to prod. It says" Objects only for display and cannot be changed". I checked the Object Changeability, they are set to "Changeable". I have no clue , how to "Activate and Schedule" in prod.

[Former Member]

You can set the object changability flags to allow you to make mods to either of three major components of process chains:

1. Process chain - lets you change the chain

2. Process starter - lets you change the start process

3. Process variant - lets you change process variants

Go to the admin workbench and select transport. Find the changability options in the upper right portion of the screen and set the process starter to everything changeable. Leave the other set to changable original or set to no changes to lock that portion down.

That should get you around your current issue.

As an added check, us table RSPCCHAIN to figure out if the whole chain is ready and active for migrating. Plug in the chain technical name and set the version to A and if the number of entries matches the number of processes all processes are active and ready to be migrated.