Deploying Automated Special

Instructions (ASI) on JD Edwards

EnterpriseOne

August 2012
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Deploying Automated Special Instructions (ASI) on JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

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Deploying Automated Special Instructions (ASI) on JD
Edwards EnterpriseOne
ASI for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Installation Guide provides instructions and guidelines
for installing ASI. This document provides an overview of ASI and identifies the steps for
installing and deploying the ASI for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.
When a reference is made to another document, you should be able to click on the
referenced document name to access the document. Navigation from Customer Connection
to the document is also provided for each referenced document.

Deploying ASI
Deploying the ASI consists of these two major steps and an optional step:

Answer questions.
Transfer questions and answers (optional).
Load data.
Each time you deploy or restart an ASI user session, Change Assistant compares your
package with the Update Center version. If the package on the Update Center supersedes
your package, a Download Applications Fixes window appears asking if you would like to
use the newer version of the package. Instructions are included in the new version to help
you evaluate the nature of the update and whether you should download and deploy the
new package. If you choose to download and deploy the new package, you must redo the
question and answer user session.
You must use a Deployment Server to complete the load portion of the process.
Context-sensitive help is available for each question and answer panel.

► To work with questions and answers

Questions and Answers

1. On Change Assistant, expand the Work with Packages node.
2. Navigate to the ASI package that you downloaded.
3. Select the ASI package by checking the box next to the package.
4. To start the ASI, click Deploy on the Work with Packages tool bar.
5. A Batch Information window appears, complete the following fields:
Name
Description
Completing the Name and Description fields is optional, but by entering a meaningful
name and description for your user session helps you find the correct user session if
you temporarily exit and then restart the session. The name and description that you

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 enter replaces the default batch number and description on the Work with Batches
node in Change Assistant.

6. If you want to run your answers in Summary mode, select the Summary option.
The summary option shows a status bar during for question and answer processing.
Your question and answer session will run in Detail mode if you do not select the
Summary option. The Detail mode shows detailed progress for your question and
answer session.

7. Click the Notes tab and do the following:

Click Edit.
Enter information about the question and answer user session.
Click Save.
Click OK.
The Notes tab is optional. Information that you enter can be viewed on Change
Assistant, Work with Batches node, under Batch Details, Notes tab.

8. If you selected Summary mode, the question and answer session automatically
starts after you click OK on either the Notes tab or the Batch Information window. If
you selected Detail mode, click Run All from the Change Assistant tool bar.
Note
The following steps and tasks use Summary mode. If you chose Detail mode, you
will see a Change Assistant Deployment Detail window and a Run All button instead
of Start.

9. Complete the questions and answers.

Clicking Cancel on a question and answer panel saves your entries and exits the
question and answer panel. Click Start on the Change Assistant Deployment
Summary window to return to the question and answer panel that you cancelled. If
you close the Change Assistant Deployment Summary window, you are returned to
Change Assistant and you will need to redeploy your package.

You can temporarily exit and then restart this user session at any question and
answer panel. The tool will restart where you stopped.

See To temporarily exit the question and answer session

10. When you complete all of the question and answer panels, a Confirm Load
Configuration window appears that tells you to STOP. Do one of the following:
If you ran the question and answer user session on your deployment server:
Click Next.
Go to Loading Data, Step 9 of the task, To load data.
11. Enter your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne User ID and password and select PLANNER
environment.

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 A message appears prompting you for the target environment.
12. Select the environment for your answers. For example, you might want to load your
answers on your Prototype (PY) environment.
The load process runs a series of steps to copy data to your JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne system. When the load process stops, review the status reports and
exit from Change Assistant.
A Breakpoint message appears.

13. Click OK to return to Change Assistant.

If you are on a machine other than your Deployment Server, you must transfer the
user session to your Deployment Server, by completing the Exporting a user session
and Importing a user session tasks.

Use the following steps to temporarily stop the session and then restart the same session at
a later date.

► To temporarily exit the question and answer session

1. On the Change Assistant Deployment Summary window, click Pause.

2. On the screen for which you are answering questions, click Cancel.
3. On the Change Assistant Deployment Summary window, click Close.
You are returned to Change Assistant.

► To restart the question and answer session

1. Launch Change Assistant.

2. Click the Work with Batches node in the tree structure.
3. On the Batches pane, click the appropriate user session.
4. On Batch Details pane, click the Packages tab and select the user session you want
to restart.
5. Click the Batch Actions tab.
6. Select the row that has a Status of Paused.
7. Click Restart Deployment
The ASI opens with the Batch Information window.

You can change the user session name and description, add notes, and select
summary or detail mode.

8. Click OK to continue your question and answer user session, or click Cancel to
return to Change Assistant.
9. If you are in Summary mode, when you click OK, the question and answer session
restarts automatically. If you selected Detail mode, you must click Run All from the
Change Assistant tool bar.
The ASI restarts at the point where you left off.

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