Adding objects to extension bundles using forms, selected items, and referenced items

Before you can use the extension bundling features in the Deployment form, you must enable the FarmEnableExtensionBundle setting in the Settings Editor form of the Configuration Manager utility, or using the Configuration Manager from a Command Line Interface (CLI). See the help topic about the farm-wide setting for extension bundling in the Configuration Manager help.

Note:

Bundling of Application Event System (AES) events, replication documents, application messages, object messages, and themes are available only when you use the Export using Access As and Object Prefix option.
Bundling of web user control elements is available only when you use the Export using forms, selected items and referenced items option.
When you use the Export using forms, selected items and referenced items option, you can exclude referenced objects from the selected forms by using the Preview button.
Bundling of background task definitions is currently not supported.

You can add objects to existing extension bundles. Alternatively, you can also create a new extension bundle. See Creating an extension bundle for deployment.

Open the Deployment form.
Select the Export using forms, selected items and referenced items option.
In the Available Forms section, specify this information:
Filter

To filter the list of available forms, specify a keyword.
You can use the exact name of a form, or a partial text string as a filter keyword.

Scope
Select the scope type:
- To create script files that are used by an application vendor, select Vendor.
- To create script files that are used by all users, select Site.
To display the filtered results in the bottom panel of the Available Forms section, click Refresh.
From the filtered results, select the forms that you want to deploy.
The selected forms are automatically added to the Selected Forms section.
You can also perform these actions:
- To clear the list of forms in the Selected Forms section, click Reset.
- To select all the forms in the filtered results, click Select All.
- To remove all the selected forms, from the current filtered results, in the Selected Forms section, click Deselect All.
Optionally, in the Selected Forms section, perform any of these actions:
- To include in the scripts all user-defined data that were created using any of the selected forms, select Include application data.
- To remove the forms that are not needed, select the forms and then click Remove selected.
- To save the list of the selected forms into an XML file, click Save.
- To load a list of selected forms from a previously saved XML file, click Load.
In the Extension Bundle Name field, select an extension bundle.

Note: The list contains all existing extension bundles created using the Extension Bundles form. See Creating an extension bundle for deployment.
Optionally, to see a preview of the objects from the selected forms, click Preview.
Optionally, in the preview, to exclude in the extension bundle, selected objects from the selected forms, select the objects and then click Close.
To add the objects, from the selected forms, to the extension bundle, click Add To Bundle.
To verify that the objects from the selected forms are added to the extension bundle, perform these actions:
- Click View Log, and examine the output log for the operation.
- Click View Bundle, and examine the list of objects in the extension bundle.