Time to bust a myth. I'll call it LiveCycle Myth 101.1
While working on a process orchestration today in a truly team oriented setup, we were working on a single version of a process in bits and pieces. Great progress was made, happy hour came early to work today but then someone saved had an older copy of the process open on their computer...and they decided to save it........the horror....the pain......but wait, this is livecycle we are talking about....its smart...its fancy....it must have stored the previous copy we were working with in the database...it must have...
So we went ahead with our quest for the old process, tore apart the database....and found the table that contains the process orchestrations. We found our process....the jubilant team roared, the happy hour was back....and then we diffed the copy from the database with an exported copy of the process....and it went quiet in the room....it was the same process XML.
Moral of the story:
Keep a backup of the current version, LiveCycle will not save the day everyday, sometimes it takes regular good old common sense. Export a copy of your work and save it in the SVN or better yet, create a new version of the process everytime you reach a milestone. This way, the database will save each version of the process!
Share what you learn...and Happy Coding :)
While working on a process orchestration today in a truly team oriented setup, we were working on a single version of a process in bits and pieces. Great progress was made, happy hour came early to work today but then someone saved had an older copy of the process open on their computer...and they decided to save it........the horror....the pain......but wait, this is livecycle we are talking about....its smart...its fancy....it must have stored the previous copy we were working with in the database...it must have...
So we went ahead with our quest for the old process, tore apart the database....and found the table that contains the process orchestrations. We found our process....the jubilant team roared, the happy hour was back....and then we diffed the copy from the database with an exported copy of the process....and it went quiet in the room....it was the same process XML.
Moral of the story:
Keep a backup of the current version, LiveCycle will not save the day everyday, sometimes it takes regular good old common sense. Export a copy of your work and save it in the SVN or better yet, create a new version of the process everytime you reach a milestone. This way, the database will save each version of the process!
Share what you learn...and Happy Coding :)
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