Setting up a test environment

Before you "go live" with a multi-site environment, you probably want to set up a test environment, possibly with your company's data. Follow the steps below to set up a multi-site test environment with transactional replication:

  1. Create one test site.

    You have 2 choices:

    • Create an initialized application database that contains a “demo” site with data provided by Infor. This is described in the Infor SyteLine Installation Guide.
    • If you have already set up a site using this version of Infor SyteLine with your data in a "test" single-site environment, you can use that site as your initial site.
  2. Repeat step 1 to create more application databases with different site names.
    Note: The demo site has an invoice length of 10, so all of your test sites must have an invoice length of 10 if you are using any demo sites in your multi-site test setup.
  3. If you want to have multiple sites in a database, choose one of your existing application databases as the target. Copy sites from your other application databases into the target database, using the CopySite utility.

    See Copying an existing site into an existing database (multiple sites per database) for additional instructions.

  4. If there are sites in your multi-site environment that are in different databases, link the sites.
  5. Use the Configuration Manager to create client configurations that point to the new sites.
  6. Use the Service Configuration Manager to set up monitoring of your new configurations for TaskMan, non-transactional replication, and the application event system.
  7. Log into one site configuration on each application database as the system administrator and perform these steps:
    1. Set the domestic currency in the Multi-Currnecy Parameters form.
    2. In the License Management form, specify the license for this database.

      If you need to request special licenses, see the section about licensing Demo and Pilot databases in the Infor SyteLine Licensing Administration Guide.

    3. In the Sites or Sites/Entities form, ensure that the application and forms database names are set for each site in this database.
    4. Log out.
  8. Log into each site and set up replication rules and/or shared tables between all the sites.

    See Setting up replication at sites.