ClickOnce Flexible Deployment
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Now, ClickOnce Spotlight Addins allows you to automatically switch between the Production Spotlight Addins and Sandbox Spotlight Addins with the use of the application URL. This application URL is used for Logging into the application in a specific environment. Previously, to validate a new functionality available in the Sandbox environment through ClickOnce, you had to do the following:
- Uninstall the existing ClickOnce Addin from the Production environment.
- Download and install the new Addin, which would validate the Sandbox environment.
- Uninstall the new Addin from Sandbox.
- Reinstall ClickOnce Addin from the Production environment.
The installer page will be deployed on selected hosting environments, so you will have the flexibility of switching from one tenant to another in different environments.
Note:
Post this release of the ClickOnce Spotlight feature, all version updates to the application will be done automatically with the flexibility of switching between the Sandbox and Production environments.
Business Value
With the new change, you can download and install the latest version of the new functionality through the automated link specific to a version. This change significantly reduces the time and effort involved in uninstalling and installing Addins while simultaneously switching between different hosting environments.
Spotlight Addins Installer Page
On the Spotlight Addins Screen, you now have the installer links to download the latest version of Spotlight Addins. In the Spotlight Addins screen, you can download and install applications in two ways:
Automated, which is a ClickOnce method that will provide you with automated upgrades in the future
Manual, which is an InstallShield MSI method where you will have to uninstall the old version to install the new version when an upgrade is released
Furthermore, Addin download links are updated specific to a particular server, and only the users having access to Dynamic Planning will be able to download the Spotlight Add-in version from the installer page.
Note:
The download links for Spotlight Add-in are also updated in the Online Help.
Business Value
With the Installer page updated in the Spotlight Addins screen, you will not have to navigate to the Online Help for future upgrades.
In Practice: To use Installer Links
Go to your profile, click Manage Your Account.
Select Spotlight Add Ins.
You will see the ClickOnce link for Automatic Installation and the Manual Installation links of Spotlight Addin upgrades.
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