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ezegura

best way to copy form to new machine(s)

I am working on a form to be used by health practitioners in Liberia who will have limited Internet access. I plan to install Tomcat on each of their laptops and store forms locally. I have developed the form on my MacBook Air and need to transfer to laptops running Windows 7.

Is the best way to do this to copy the database subdirectory from one machine to the others?

Should I expect any issues due to the change in OS?

Thanks. I've appreciated the Orbeon functionality thus far.

Ellen Zegura

Erik Bruchez

Re: best way to copy form to new machine(s)

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Ellen,

You can do that. I asked the eXist database guys a while ago and I was
told that the database files are os-independent.

You could also retrieve the form definitions from eXist, and store
them into the WAR of the deployed app. Then you would need to set
properties in your properties-local.xml to tell Form Runner to
retrieve the forms from the WAR resources. Here is how, for example,
we tell Form Runner to retrieve the DMV-14 form from the resources

<property as="xs:string"
name="oxf.fr.persistence.provider.orbeon.dmv-14.form"
value="resource"/>

-Erik

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:31 PM, ezegura <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I am working on a form to be used by health practitioners in Liberia who will
> have limited Internet access. I plan to install Tomcat on each of their
> laptops and store forms locally. I have developed the form on my MacBook
> Air and need to transfer to laptops running Windows 7.
>
> Is the best way to do this to copy the database subdirectory from one
> machine to the others?
>
> Should I expect any issues due to the change in OS?
>
> Thanks. I've appreciated the Orbeon functionality thus far.
>
> Ellen Zegura
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ezegura

Re: best way to copy form to new machine(s)

Thanks, Eric. I went with the option to copy the complete exist-data subdirectory from the development machine (a MacBook Air) onto each of the Windows7 laptops that will be in the field. It worked beautifully.

Ellen

Erik Bruchez

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Ellen,

Cool, thanks for confirming.

-Erik

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 2:45 AM, ezegura <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Thanks, Eric. I went with the option to copy the complete exist-data
> subdirectory from the development machine (a MacBook Air) onto each of the
> Windows7 laptops that will be in the field. It worked beautifully.
>
> Ellen
>
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