Installing and Configuring the Action Builder

As a system administrator, you install and configure the Action Builder to create new Actions (sets of objects) for common operations to be used in workflows.

This page includes the following:

Prerequisites

You need to have the Automic Web Interface installed to install the Action Builder. For more information, see Installing the Automic Web Interface.

Notes:

You can download the latest version of the AWI from https://downloads.automic.com/.
The version of the Plugin can be retrieved from the log file or the About dialog of the AWI.
The AWI log and messages can also provide useful information to identify the problem(s) preventing the Plugin from being installed.

Installing and Uninstalling the Action Builder

The Action Builder is delivered as a .zip file and contains a .jar file that has to be either copied, replaced or removed to install, update or uninstall the Plugin.

Note: You need to restart your session after copying the .jar file to be able to use the Action Builder.

To install the Action Builder, unzip the .zip file and copy the .jar file to the autoinstall folder in the webapps/ directory of the Tomcat server running the Automic Web Interface.

If your system was set up by the ONE Installer, this should be: <installer-root>/External.Resources/apache-tomcat-x.x.xx/webapps/<awi-webapp-folder>/WEB-INF/autoinstall.

The Plugin Manager is available in the Packs tab of the Administration perspective.

Optionally, you can enable logging by adding the following parameters to the logback.xml file in the config folder of the webapps/<awi-webapp-folder> directory on your Tomcat server:

<appender-ref ref="LOGGER"/>

</logger>

To uninstall the Action Builder, remove the corresponding .jar file from the autoinstall folder of your Tomcat installation.

Configuring the Action Builder

Configuration is optional and can be done via the actionbuilder.properties file located in /webapps/<awi-webapp-folder>/config/awi-plugins-actionbuilder-<yourversion> in your Tomcat installation.

You can configure the following values or use them as default when creating new Action Packs:

Version number:

scaffolding.package_version = 1.0.0
Company name:

scaffolding.package_company = Custom
Dependencies:

#scaffolding.package_dependencies = PCK.ITPA_SHARED ~> 1.1

Important! As long as you do not have additional dependencies, leave this unchanged.
Company website:

scaffolding.package_homepage = www.yourcompany.com
Action Pack prefix:

scaffolding.package_title_prefix = CUSTOM_

Updating the Action Builder

Replace the existing .jar file in the autoinstall folder in the webapps/ directory of the Tomcat server running AWI with the new version. The configuration file will not be overwritten.

Example

C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\webapps\AWI\WEB-INF\autoinstall