Stage Personalization rules to production
Use the following steps to move Personalization rules from a staging system to a production system. There are a number of methods for moving rules between servers, each suitable for different situations. Choose one of the following methods to move rules:
Method: Export from source then import into destination
Steps Advantages Disadvantages Users
- Use the Export button in the Personalization Navigator portlet on the source to export a nodes file.
- Use the Import button in the Personalization Navigator portlet on the target to import that file.
- This method is the easiest way to move rules.
- Uses a familiar export and import paradigm.
- Cannot be scripted.
- Requires Personalization Navigator portlet to be installed on the target server.
- Development teams.
- Quick, ad-hoc changes in small deployments and test environments.
Method: Publish using the Personalization Navigator portlet
Steps Advantages Disadvantages Users Use the Publish menu options in the Personalization Navigator portlet to publish the entire workspace or to selectively publish
- Easy and quick to use. Once a publish server is configured, we can publish rules in two clicks.
- This method does not require rules to be saved on the file system.
- If publishing the entire workspace with smart delete, we can ensure two workspaces are the same.
- No intermediate file is produced by the process, so there is no record of what was published other than log files.
- This approach is driven from a graphical user interface, so it is not scriptable.
Business users with rule authoring responsibilities.
Method: Export from the source and then publish into the destination
Steps Advantages Disadvantages Users
- Use the export button in the Personalization Navigator portlet on the source to export a nodes file.
- Use the pznload utility to publish the nodes file that you exported to the target.
- This method can an be scripted.
- Allows the changes to be tracked, controlled, and the earlier versions to be reverted by maintaining copying of the nodes files and rerunning a script.
Requires use of a command line interface.
- Administrators
- Moving between staging and production environments
Notes:
- If the rules are referenced by Personalization components, ensure the Personalization components are published and syndicated in Web Content Management.
- If the rules are referenced in pages or portlets, move the page and portlet definitions with xml access or release builder.
Related information
Publishing rules
Parent topic:
Staging to production