Deploying Folders

Team Coherence supports the concept of Web Folders through the WebDeploy.dll addin. This addin is installed in the client automatically.

Defining a folder as a Web Folder allows you to quickly publish the latest version of the files that are contained by the folder to a web server or another folder. You can define multiple destinations using either network shares or ftp.

Only users with Access rights to a folder can define the Web Folder and deploy the files. To define a folder as a Web Folder, right-click on the folder and select Action / Properties... from the main menu. If you have the correct access rights, an additional page will appear in the dialog:

The folder (and all its contents) will be deployed to the listed locations when the folder is selected and you choose Web/Deploy Folder... from the main menu. When deploying the files, Team Coherence will get the latest versions of the files to a temporary folder before deploying them.

Note that only users with Access rights to the folder will see this additional page in the Folder Properties dialog box.

If a folder has been defined as a Web Folder, it appears with a slightly different icon in Version Manager:

If you select this folder, the Web/Deploy Folder... menu option is enabled to allow users with the correct access to deploy the contents.

Note that this command is useful in many instances other than Web site deployment; for example, if you have a set of product specification .doc files that you want to publish to a public server.