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Publishing Objects
In ELMA, you publish objects in order to save and apply the changes you made in ELMA Designer and make them available in Web Application. Sometimes you also have to restart the server to apply changes.
There are two ways to publish objects:
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In ELMA Designer, open the object page and click Save - Publish in the toolbar. In the opened window (fig. 1), click OK to confirm publishing. You can add a comment to the published object, if necessary.
Fig. 1. Confirming object publishing
The Objects portlet on the Publishing tab (fig. 2) displays the number of object drafts, published objects, objects, requiring publishing and deleted objects.
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Fig. 2. "Publishing" tab. "Objects" portlet
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Drafts – number of changed and saved but not published objects. You can view the changes only in ELMA Designer. To apply them you have to publish the objects and restart the server.
Published – number of published objects.
Server restart is required – number of published objects, which require server restart to apply changes.
Deleted – number of deleted objects.
Publishing tab. Objects section
There are several ways to open this section:
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click a number of objects on the Objects portlet;
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click Go to Objects at the top of the Objects portlet;
The Objects section includes the following tabs: Drafts, Published, Restart is required. The active tab is dark-yellow.
"Drafts" tab – list of changed and saved but not published objects (fig. 3). This tab allows publishing objects in groups.
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Fig. 3. "Publishing" tab. "Objects" section. "Drafts" tab
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"Published" tab – list of all the published objects (fig. 4). If the object is changed and published at least ones, it will be displayed on this tab.
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Fig. 4. "Publishing" tab. "Objects" section. "Published" tab
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"Restart is required" tab – list of published objects. To apply changes, restart the server (fig. 5).
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Fig. 5. "Publishing" tab. "Objects" section. "Restart is required" tab
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To return to the Publishing tab (fig. 2) click Objects – General Information (fig. 6) in the toolbar.
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Fig. 6. "Publishing" tab. "General Information" button
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To publish several objects at the same time, go to the Publishing tab, Objects section select the required object (by holding Ctrl) and click Publish (fig. 7) in the toolbar or in the context menu on the Drafts tab (fig. 3).
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Fig. 7. "Publishing" tab. "Objects" section
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Usually, group object publishing is used for objects with "Object" or "Enumeration" properties. You have to publish all the objects at the same time, since they refer to each other.
Server Restart
You can restart the server on the Publishing tab, Common section. Click Restart Server and confirm restarting in the opened dialog box.
If there are changes in the system, which require server restart the Publishing tab will display a notification about it (fig. 8).
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Fig. 8. "Publishing" tab. Notification, that server restart is required
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After you have restarted the server, the Publishing tab will display the notification about the server restart results (fig. 9).
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Fig. 9. "Publishing" tab. Notification on the server restart results
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