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Automated deployment FAQs
What is automated deployment?
Automated deployment is the process of deploying a study to InForm without assistance from system administrators. In InForm, you can only deploy studies if they do not require approval, and you can only deploy one study package at a time from the InForm user interface.
We recommend that you do all of your deployments from Central Designer.
Note: Automated deployments are only supported for single database (SameDB) installations, where InForm and the Reporting and Analysis module are installed in the same database instance.
What should I do before deploying a study?
Before deploying a study, you should:
- Make sure that the deployment package is available on your local machine.
- Stop all activity on the study.
During automated deployment, the study is put into maintenance mode. In maintenance mode, the InForm user interface is not available and any rules, InForm Data Import utility processes, or Clinical Data API processes that are running against the study fail because the study denies all processing requests.
What is the deployment log?
The deployment log is a log file containing the details of the deployment. When you deploy a study, InForm creates a log file and saves a copy of the deployment package. The deployment log is available for all deployments that have been scheduled, canceled, or completed.
- The log file is saved to the InFormDeploy\<study>\Logs folder.
- A copy of the study package is saved to the InFormDeploy\<study>\Archive folder.
