SOURCE: ONESTREAM CHAMPIONS
Does anyone have any tips or best practices to make it clearly visible when an admin is in Production vs. Development? Obviously next to user name we can see Production or Development, but other than that one word, they look identical. I’m thinking of something like a big red “DEV” logo at the top ribbon next to OneStream XF or something similar to that.
Hello!
We’re on the cloud and so asked OS support to make this update for us:
In excel it looks like this:
We also name all our dev apps DEV_ and then the 2 digit month, 2 digit day and 2 digit year we made the copy from prod. For example, if I copied prod today for a dev app, it would be named DEV_062421.
Hope that’s useful!
Does this work in Azure hosted and when your Dev and Prod are just different applications in the same instance? In other words does each application have its own Environment color or does that update the instance?
it works in azure, you just submit a ticket to OS support (if they are your hosting provider)
it is by instance. all applications in the environment would have the same color and environment name.
This is very similar to what we have.
Hi Nicole
So if I understand you well, they changed the name of the application to development?
Thank you
Nouria
Hi Nouria,
We name our own apps when they're created/copied (we always copy from PROD) and we name the dev apps with the prefix of DEV. For example: DEV_061522
These options are now available directly in the application, if you have enough rights:
In what version is this option?
I want to say 6.8 but I have no way to check if that's correct. It's definitely there on 7.2.
That's an easy one.
Thanks! Where in your application is the Application Server Configuration File located? I cannot find it unfortunately.
Dependent on the configuration… In Celvin’s image, the path of the XFAppServerConfig.xml file “Application Server Configuration” is located at C:\OneStreamShare\Confiig. The other common location is C:\OneStream or C:\OneStream\FileShare. In a multi-server environment, there will be a common “shared” location. The first server, I would check is the web server(s) in the environment.
Do you just write the color, or do you have to use a HTML color code ?
You can just get the color. For example, Red.
But again if you have one cloud instance and you have dev and prod applications all in that instance you can not have different colors. You can only change the color for the instance although now you can do it yourself.
Exactly, I'm more concerned with application colors in the same environment....We should be able to have different colors per application within the same environment.
I honestly couldn't tell you the last time I logged into our Dev Environment. All we use is our Prod Environment for our Production app, Development app, Proof Of Concept app, etc.
I agree. I know this is nowhere near enough, but some mitigation can be put in place at the Dashboard level, like setting backgrounds with a Parameter that will have different values in Prod ("white") and Dev ("yellow").
For actual dedicated features, have a look in Ideastream - I have a feeling this has been requested.
