Gates

To update the destination shell templates with Gates setup:

Go to the Company Workspace (Admin mode) > Templates > Shells > Projects.
From the Projects Templates log or window, select and open a project.
From the navigation pane, click Setup to expand the node, and click Gates to open the Gates Setup log or window.
Click to select an item, and from the toolbar click Update Shell Templates to open the Update Shell Templates menu items. Your options are as follows:
- Shells Templates
- All Other Shell Templates
- History

The following explores each option in detail.

Shells Templates

If you select this option, the Select Shell Templates window opens that displays a list of projects that you can select. The projects are listed in the Projects log, and the details of each project are displayed in columns:

Project Number
Project Name
Status
Location
Project Type
Project Start Date
Project End Date
Administrator

Select from the projects that you want to update and from the toolbar click Update. When the Confirmation window opens, review the message that is displayed in the Confirmation window.

Update Shell Template with Gates Setup

- If Setup does not exist then it will be added

- Gates Setup will be added or replaced

- Users and Groups will be added if they do not exist

-If Group is created then it will be empty

This will update shell templates and cannot be reverted. Do you want to continue?

Click Yes, if you want to update the selected shell templates, or click No, to cancel your update.

If you click Yes, the push job gets initiated and the History log will show the job details. The Gates setup will be added or replaced in the destination shell template, upon successful completion of the update or push job.

If there are no existing Gates Setup in the destination shell template, a new Gates Setup will be added, and the information in the General, Settings, and Schedule tabs will be updated.

General tab:

The Setup Name, Description, and Status will be updated based on the source Gates Setup values.

The Status value (Active/Inactive) of the destination shell template Gates Setup will be updated with the source.

Settings tab:

All the phases in the Settings tab will be updated, and the Gates Setup condition elements will be added.

The Groups and Users associated with the additional Gates Setup information will be updated, and they will be added as shell template members if they do not exist. In the case of Groups, only the Groups names will be added.

The Email content and other additional Gates Setup in the Settings tab will be updated according to the Gates Setup information of the source.

Schedule tab:

The details related to the schedule runs of the Gates Setup will be updated with the Gates Setup information of the source.

The Gates Setup log information (such as Name, Status, Last Update Date, Creator, and Current Phase) will be updated with the Gates Setup information of the source.

The Last Update Date value will get updated to the current date and time.

If there are existing Gates Setup in the destination shell template, and the current status of the setup is Inactive, then the Gates Setup in the destination shell template will be updated, and the status will be updated based on the source Gates Setup.

All Other Shell Templates

If you select this option, a Confirmation window opens with the following message:

Update Shell Template with Gates Setup

- If Setup does not exist then it will be added

- Gates Setup will be added or replaced

- Users and Groups will be added if they do not exist

-If Group is created then it will be empty

This will update shell templates and cannot be reverted. Do you want to continue?

Click Yes, if you want to update all of the shell templates, or click No, to cancel your update.

History

If you click the History menu item, the Update Shell Templates: History window opens. This window shows the details of the submitted update requests. This window provides details such as:

Requestor's name (Requestor column)
Selected shell templates (Shell Templates column)
Date submitted (Submit Date column)
Start date and time (Start Date column)
End date and time (End Date column)
Status of the job (Status column)

The History log provides details of each job by showing the actions performed as a part of Gates Setup push to the destination shell templates.

In the case where in certain shell templates the job is not successful, the history details lists the shell templates where the update has failed and displays the reason for the failure.

You can click to select an item in the list and click Open, from the toolbar, to see the details about that item.

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