Deploying an entity to the sandbox

The MAK sandbox provides the option of deploying an entity to a personal area in the M3 BE Server. Entities deployed to the sandbox do not affect any other user. The M3 BE user ID is the unique key for the sandbox. The lock file for the entity is not removed when deploying to a sandbox, which keeps it checked out as long as you need to test it in the sandbox.

When the same user ID that has a version located in the sandbox is starting a program, the sandbox version is used, if the user has started a debug subsystem.

The sandbox feature can be used for these entities:

• Programs

• Out interfaces

• View definitions

• Data structures

When a user deploys to the sandbox for the first time, a new folder with the MAK User ID or name is created on the M3 BE Server. The necessary files are then deployed in that file structure. For example, for a user 13545, a folder called 13545 is created in MVX.