Adding a site or entity to an existing shared tables intranet
After your multi-site system is set up and running, you might need to add a site to it. Use this chart to find the instructions to use:
| New or existing | Adding to a database with | See |
|---|---|---|
| New site or entity | One site per database | Adding a new site or entity to an existing system (one site per database). |
| New site or entity | Multiple sites per database | Adding new sites and entities to an existing database |
| Existing site or entity | One site per database | Adding an existing site or entity to an existing system (one site per database) |
| Existing site or entity | Multiple sites per database | Copying an existing site into an existing database (multiple sites per database) |
To simplify the explanation of this process, these site names are used in examples in this chapter:
- OH is the master site on the existing shared tables intranet.
- MI and CA are other sites on the intranet.
- IN is the site being added to the intranet.
About manual replication
During this process, one of the steps you will perform is manual replication from the master site to the new site.
Before you can perform manual replication from the master site, site records must already exist in the target database (the new site) for all sites in the master site’s intranet. That is, if the master site’s intranet includes OH (the master site), MI, CA, and KY, and you are adding the new site IN, then you must create site records in the IN site for OH, MI, CA and KY, before you run manual replication from the master site (OH) to the new site (IN). You should only fill in the site name and time zone when you create the other site records at IN. During manual replication, the site records at IN are overwritten with the information from the site records at OH.