Extracting Optimize Assets
The webMethods product suite offers tools for storing, building, and deploying Optimize assets (such as custom trees, data filters, dimensions, event maps, dimension hierarchies, intelligent links, process configurations, and rules) from one environment to another using a common composite repository system, thus enabling users to share business data throughout the entire organization.
You can extract Optimize assets from My webMethods Server, save them to your file system, check them in to a version control system, and later deploy them to another Optimize Analytic Engine.
To extract
Optimize assets
1. In My webMethods: Navigate > Administration > Analytics > Data Management > Asset Extraction
My webMethods displays the Asset Extraction page.
2. Expand the Optimize root and select the assets you want to extract.
3. Click Select Dependencies to select all assets dependent on the ones you selected in step 2.
This ensures that all necessary assets are extracted in one archive.
4. Click Export Assets to export all selected Optimize assets to your file system.
5. In the dialog that appears, specify a project name for the exported assets. In case you do not provide a valid name, an error message appears.
The assets are exported in a folder with the specified project name. The project contains an archive with separate .xml files that you can save and later deploy to another instance of Optimize Analytic Engine. The archive includes an .acdl file in the project’s directory. The .acdl file has the same name as the project and contains a description of the exported assets and their dependencies.
For more information about deploying the extracted assets to other instances of Optimize Analytic Engine, see webMethods Deployer User’s Guide.