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Help. On our test server we have had ATP installed - which I basically think is a good product. I havent had much time to play with it but I want to get it up and running to help us when we do updates in future. But - I have a problem that relates to updates and wonder how anyone else has handled it, or is Sage going to come up with a better system.

Specifically - on the test server we have a complete copy of live, with ATP installed, and this copy of the data is very out of date. I want it refreshing from live. This is going to destroy the ATP system. Apparantly the advised route is to have one folder with data and ATP installed, one folder withdata that can be restored onto that folder after testing to refresh that data, and then another that is your actual copy of your latest data. This means that every time we make any type of change to the set up, or reports, or add the data of an aquisition, that I have to do this to all of those folders individually. 

This is a huge amount of work. 

Has anyone come up with a better way of dealing with this, or are any changes going to be made to ATP to make this smoother? Or am I missing the point????

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    Hello Jane,

    I'm not sure where you got advised to have three folders.  I can see sense in maybe having two folders, keeping one as a control and to refresh the main work folder if needed.

    Regarding refreshing data, I am not sure why you think this would destroy the ATP installation.  The ATP and Jenkins components are installed seperately from X3 folders, and the X3 folder setup is done in the Endpoint which is not overwritten when you do a folder refresh.    If you do an SVG export from your LIVE folder and use that as an import to your TEST server, I don't immediately see any issues.

    Have you tried a refresh and it didn't work, or just looking for confirmation of the steps at this stage?

  • 0 in reply to MikeS.

    Hi. Thankyou Mike. I will double check this with my support company. We havent done it yet and I must admit it did seem a little odd that doing an update would over write it. 

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