After you have installed and configured the Web Interface instance of the new Active Roles version, you can use Configuration Center to create Web Interface sites of the new version, importing site configuration data from the configuration objects used by your existing Web Interface sites of the earlier Active Roles version (see Identifying configuration objects). As a result, the new Web Interface sites will inherit all customizations that were made to the menus, commands, forms and other elements of your Web Interface sites of the earlier version.
To create a Web Interface site based on an old configuration object
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From the Windows Start menu, open the Active RolesConfiguration Center.
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In the Configuration Center main window, under Web Interface, click Manage Sites.
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On the Sites page, click Create to open the Web Interface Site.
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On the Web Application page, choose the IIS Web site to contain the web application that implements the Web Interface site, and specify an alias for that application.
The alias defines the virtual path that is a part of the Web Interface site’s address. You can view the resulting address on the Web Application page.
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Click Next to proceed to the Configuration page.
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From the list on the Configuration page, select the Import from an existing configuration option.
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Complete the fields on the Configuration page:
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In the Configuration name field, supply the name of the configuration object for the new Web Interface site. You can accept the default name.
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The wizard will create a configuration object with the specified name, and import configuration data to that object.
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From the list in the Configuration to import box, select the name of the configuration object from which to import the configuration data.
This must be the name of the configuration object used by one of your existing Web Interface sites of the earlier Active Roles version (see Identifying configuration objects).
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Click the Create button, and wait while the wizard creates the new Web Interface site.
Perform these steps for each of your Web Interface sites of the earlier version, selecting the appropriate object name in Step 7b.