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expression to get the environmental URL

garethm over 7 years ago

Hiya all,

Is there an expression that can be used to the the base URL for the environment - the xx.yy.com/suite part?

TIA,

Gareth

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Ram over 7 years ago +1
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Hi Gareth, rule!APN_getSiteUrl() might solve your problem. Hope this helps
Puspendu Pal over 7 years ago +1

If you dont want to use the deprecated method, you may try to get the base URL(xx.yy.com) using urlforrecord as follows: with( local!anyURL: urlforrecord( recordType: ri!recordType, identifier: ri!recordIdentifier…
Navin Reddy over 2 years ago +1 suggested
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regexfirstmatch("https://[a-z]+\.[a-z]+\.[a-z]+",a!urlfortask(0))

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0 garethm over 7 years ago

Hiya Tim
We had that system (constant, array constant and a choose statement which you set up for us!)... but the environmental constant can be easily overwritten by accident which changes the behaviour of the site - not by me I hasten to add!

So I was looking for a more fool-proof way to identify the environment and use that instead.

rule!APN_getSiteUrl() seems to work nicely...just hoping that the deprecated nature does not come back to haunt me!

Gareth
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0 garethm over 7 years ago

Hiya Tim
We had that system (constant, array constant and a choose statement which you set up for us!)... but the environmental constant can be easily overwritten by accident which changes the behaviour of the site - not by me I hasten to add!

So I was looking for a more fool-proof way to identify the environment and use that instead.

rule!APN_getSiteUrl() seems to work nicely...just hoping that the deprecated nature does not come back to haunt me!

Gareth
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0 alexandera
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over 7 years ago in reply to garethm

To avoid environmental constants from being overwritten by accident when deploying to higher environments, you can keep all of the environment dependent constants in a separate application, so when stories/applications/releases/bugs/etc. get deployed, the environment objects never get accidently deployed or overwritten. However, this means an extra step must be added to "deployment instructions" to handle manually editing environmental constants from one env to another.
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0 Mike Schmitt over 7 years ago in reply to alexandera

Of course this is now unnecessary in 17.1 and above - simply set environment constants as "environment specific", and then even re-importing a newer version of a constant won't overwrite the version currently on that environment.
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0 josep over 7 years ago in reply to alexandera

Hi Alexandera,

When talking about environmental variables I would suggest to add a "{Company} Common Application" which can be setted and managed by the admin team. This is recomended for all the environment specific variables.

Best Regards
Jose P
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