Deployment Preparations

All components in IFS Applications must have a component profile file that controls how the component should be deployed. This component file is also needed by all IFS Applications web components.

During the component build step, the IFS Configuration Builder tool, ConfigBuild.exe, reads the component profile file called Deploy.ini, which defines various deployment and installation characteristics of the component.


[Module]
Name=Accruw

[ComponentName]
Description=Accounting Rules Web

[ComponentType]
Type=WebB2E

[Connections]
Accrul=STATIC

[AccruwVersions]
2.2.0=Accounting Rules Business to Employee Web 2.2.0

The example above shows that component Accruw has current version 2.2.0 and is a Business to Employee (B2E) web solution. The IFS Configuration Builder tool, ConfigBuild.exe, will build the Accruw component and put the files together with all the other business to employee components that have been built in this installation set. Besides business to employee solution IFS also have business to business components. These components should only be built with other business to business components and are treated separately in the build process.

If the Accruw component should be a business to business component the deploy.ini file should look like the example below. All changed sections are marked in bold.


[Module]
Name=Accruw

[ComponentName]
Description=Accounting Rules Web

[ComponentType]
Type=WebB2B

[Connections]
Accrul=STATIC

[AccruwVersions]
2.2.0=Accounting Rules Business to Business Web 2.2.0

Please note that the sections ComponentType is critical for the deploy.ini to work correctly. Please check the spelling of these if the component can't be deployed correctly.