To build or deploy a project you must first open it in the Projects Explorer by double-clicking on the project or right-clicking and selecting Open.

On the Execute tab you will see two sections titled Current State of Project Deployments and Project Activity. Current State of Project Deployments section is not available on Partial Deployment Projects.

The Current State of Project Deployments indicates which environments contain which version of the project. If the project has not been deployed to an environment it will not appear in the list. This provides an easy to access summary of this project's current deployment state across all environments.

The Project Activity identifies all build and deployment requests along with the execution status for each request, whether completed/failed, pending approval, scheduled or in progress. The Workflow Request columns provides details pertaining to the build or deployment request that was submitted. Once a workflow request begins execution the Workflow Execution columns will provide details pertaining to its execution on the target instance. Figure 14.2 describes the status lifecycle of a workflow request and its workflow execution. 

Building a Standard Project

From the Execution tab, click the Build button.

Enter values in the Build Request Form as described in the table below.

Click the Submit Request button to submit the build request.

Deploying a Standard Project

From the Execution tab, click the Deploy button.

Enter values in the Deployment Request Form as described in the table below.

Click the Submit Request button to submit the deployment request.

Building a Partial Deployment Project

From the Execution tab, click the Build button.

Enter values in the Build Request Form as described in the table below.

Adding Files

To update the files to be a part of this build, enter a portion of the File Name and select the Add File button. The files that contain this field will be added to the list. 

Alternatively, you can add files from a previous package.  Select the Add Files(s) from Package button and the following screen pops up:

You can filter the list of packages by entering a portion of the name and select one of the search options (Starts with, Ends with, Contains, Equals) and press the Search button.  To remove the search criteria, press the Reset button.  Choose the package you would like to add files from by clicking on the Project Version or Package Name link.  The following screen will pop up allowing you to select the files from that package:

Filtering the list of files can be done by entering a portion of the name and clicking the Filter button.  Then only the files containing the filter string will be displayed.

You may either add the selected files by pressing the Add Selected button or add all the currently filtered files by pressing the Add All button.  To return to the Add Files from Package Screen, press the Back to Select Package button.  The Cancel button will return you to the Build Request Form.

Note: The revision in the package may be blank for 2 reasons, either the package was created before revisions were tracked or the files is Sources from EBS and not SCM.  If it is sourced from EBS, the build will once again take the file available in EBS and not the file that was built in the package you selected.

Removing Files

To remove files from the list of files to be included in the build, select the files and click the Remove Selected File(s) button.

Entering Revisions

On the Build Request Form, you can add revisions for each file you are building.  Currently, these revisions all must be contained by the stream you selected for the build.

You may enter the revision in the text box or click the magnifying glass to look up the revision.  When looking up the revision, the following screen will pop up:

You may enter a filter text which will show those revisons that either the Revison or Commit Message contain the Filter Text.  To select the revision you want, click on the Revision link.

A empty revision will default to the Head revision on the selected stream.

Selecting Files

To help with selecting and unselecting files the follow buttons are provided:

• All – Selects all the files in the list
• None – Unselects all the files in the list
• Invert - Unselects all the files that are currently selected and selects all the files that are currently unselected.

You may also manually check and uncheck the files with the check box at the start of each row.

Ordering Files

At times, the order of both build and deploy can be important. You can control the order by the sequence of the files in the list. If you need to alter the order, use the Up Button to move the selected row(s) up one row. If multiple rows are selected, the top row is moved up by 1 row, the remaining selected rows are placed right below the highest selected row. Use the Down Button to move the selected row(s) down one row. If multiple rows are selected, the bottom row is moved down by 1 row, the remaining selected rows are placed right above the lowest selected row.

Submitting

Click the Submit Request button to submit the build request.

Deploying a Partial Deployment Project

From the Execution tab of a partial deploy project, click the Deploy button.

Enter values in the Deployment Request Form as described in the table below.

By default the Deployment Request Form will populate with the most recently built package. To modify the list of packages to be deployed, click the Select More Packages button and the screen in the figure below will pop up. 

You can Search using Package and Project Version names by entering the text and selecting the search option (either Starts with, Ends with, Equals, or Contains) as shown above and clicking the Search button. The search results will appear in the table.

If you would like to add a package to the deployment, click the Red + sign. To remove a package, click the red X. The green check mark indicates that the files have been added. Click the Save button to accept the files, or the Cancel button to cancel the changes.

Finally, to control the order that the packages are deployed, enter the priority values as shown in Figure 14.13. If the priority is a lower value, it will deploy first. Higher values will deploy later. If they have the same priority, they may deploy at the same time.

When you have the set of packages you wish to deploy, click the Submit Request button to submit the deployment request.  Each package will run as a separate workflow request and workflow execution in the Project Activity table. 

Testing a Project

From the Execution tab, click the Test button.

Enter values in the Run Tests Request Form as described below. 

Click the Submit Request button to submit the test execution.

Monitoring Project Workflow Requests

Once a project build or deployment request has been submitted it can be monitored by clicking on the Execution Id.

You can click on the Refresh button and watch the statuses progress throughout the lifecycle until it is either failed or completed. To see more details about an execution click on the id in the Execution Id column of the Project Activity section.

Execution Steps

The Execution Steps tab provides a graphical representation of the steps which are either in progress or have completed. Each plugin step in the workflow reports its start time, duration, and status.

Underneath each workflow invoke plugin step is a link for each endpoint which the operation executed on, providing access to its logs. The logs provide valuable information to indicate progress, as well as data to help identify the cause of any errors. The Log Data tab lists the detailed logs as reported by the associated plugin. The Inputs and Outputs tab provide values for any inputs and outputs that were provided to or returned from the plugin operation execution. Click the Refresh button to refresh the logs. Click the OK button to close the log information dialog.

A text file of the Log Data from the plugin execution can be downloaded by clicking on the Download Logs button in the bottom right of the window.

Fault Data

The Fault Data tab will appear in the event of a failed workflow execution. This will be the first tab after clicking on the Execution Id, and will provide any error messages. The information appearing here could be either the user defined details from the RaiseFault workflow operation, or a stack trace captured from a plugin operation invocation.

Artifacts

The Artifacts tab identifies the artifacts that were produced by a build workflow. These artifacts can be viewed on the build execution or any associated deployment execution. You can view the files and download all the artifacts as ZIP file or individual artifacts.

Change Log

The Change Log tab lists all source files modified since the last build.

• Number of commits
• Revision, date committed, Committer, Number of changes in this commit, comments entered during the commit
• Files with full path and action (Modified, Added or Deleted) for each Source.

Properties

The Properties tab lists the workflow properties and the values which were provided when the request was submitted. Likewise, the Inputs, Outputs, and Variables tabs provide values for any inputs, outputs, or variables that were provided to or produced from the workflow.

Files

The Files tab lists the details for the Partial Deployment. This tab is only visible for either a Partial Deployment Build or Deploy.

For a build, the Files tab display the list of files that were built by this workflow. The Seq Num column indicates the order the files will subsequently be deployed. The Revision is the SCM revision for that file in this build. The list can be filtered by entering a search string to find in the File Path column for each file you want displayed and clicking the Filter button.

For deploy, the Files tab display the list of files that were deployed by this workflow. The Seq Num column indicates the order the files were deployed. The Revision is the SCM revision for that file that was deployed.  The Status indicates the status of the file deployment and is one of the following values:

• SUCCESS – The deployment Succeeded
• FAILED – The deployment Failed
• SKIPPED – The deployment was Skipped because this file version is already deployed
• NOT ATTEMPTED – In case of a serious plugin error, files may not be attempted to be deployed.

The list can be filtered by entering a search string into the File Name (with Path) field and/or choose a status from the Status dropdown then click the Filter button. The Filter will apply to the File Path column.

Test Results

The Test Results tab lists the Test Sets that were executed in this test run and the associated results. By clicking on the small triangle at the front of the Test Set line, the line can be expanded to include all the Test Definitions that were run for the Test Set.

To see the details of the Test Set run, click on the Test Set name which will bring up the Test Set Execution screen. At the top of the screen there is a summary of the results for the Test Set and below are the details for each Test Definition Run.

By clicking on the Qualifier Values tab, you can see detailed results for each Qualifier evaluation as shown below. A qualifier that meets the criteria will be marked with a green checkmark, if it fails, it will be marked with a red checkmark.

To see the details for a Test Definition, go to the view of the Test Results  click on the triangle in front of the Test Set to display the Test Definitions and click on the Test Definition Name. This will open the window below with the Test Case details for the Test Definition.

Clicking the Qualifier Values tab will open the view below to show the detailed results of each qualifier evaluation.

Figure 14.29
Click the Back button to return to the project's workflow execution screen.