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varinder-kudosweb - 8/24/2013 6:53:49 PM

Source Control and Portal Engine development model

This has been discussed before

Ive been developing/maintaining pages/templates/transformations/css etc in portal engine.
However, its a little tricky when working in a team as often things get overwritten.

Is it possible to develop/test pages ( in portal engine mode ) locally and then push it to the live site?


Kentico Support	kentico_jurajo - 8/26/2013 6:40:41 AM RE:Source Control and Portal Engine development model Hi, Have you tried using the Team development feature in v7? Best regards, Juraj Ondrus

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varinder-kudosweb - 8/26/2013 4:51:33 PM

RE:Source Control and Portal Engine development model

Hi Juraj,

Thanks, this seems to be in the right direction. One question however:

Is it possible to set up a dev workflow like below?

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[dev A] + [dev B] + [dev C]... -> developing pages, configuring webparts/documenttypes etc in local instance of kentico
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Github
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|| -> *Magically* pushing staging branch commits to kentico staging server ( web hooks? https://help.github.com/articles/post-receive-hooks, id be interested to know how kentico can be setup to recieve files from a third party source control )
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Kentico Staging site ( *Magically* in Sync with staging branch from github )
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- Varinder

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Brenden Kehren - 8/26/2013 5:32:47 PM

RE:Source Control and Portal Engine development model

If you're using Portal Engine and you don't have code changes/additions, GitHub will be useless because all your page templates, layouts, documents, transformations, etc. will be directly in the database.

If you plan to maintain this site after the deployment, I recommend putting the whole website in a repository. This way when you use the KIM tool to update your site you can check those files into your repo and keep track of items that were updated. Here is a pretty good thread that talks about source control and Kentico.

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varinder-kudosweb - 8/26/2013 5:50:07 PM

RE:Source Control and Portal Engine development model

Hi FroggEye,

I could've revived that thread instead of starting a new one.

Im sorry im confused ( maybe im thinking too far before actually doing anything )

- Portal engine changes are directly in the database.
- So i'd go ahead and export pagetemplates etc to CMSVirtualFiles?
- ... crap, i have no idea what im talking about

Well, sorry back to the lame question: how would i go about using a source control in portal engine development model (i.e, all the files are actually in db of local kentico installation)?

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kentico_jurajo - 8/26/2013 10:01:38 PM

RE:Source Control and Portal Engine development model

Hi,

I believe that the idea is to use the virtual files on file system just like in deployment mode. In portal engine the objects we are talking about are virtual - they are stored in the database.

Regrettably, there is no workflow for objects but it will be added soon. Right now, only object versioning is available.

Best regards,
Juraj Ondrus