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Development environment (dev)

Site deletion policies

If a development site is not edited within six months of creation, it will be deleted without notice.

If there was initial development yet the site has remained unedited for more than one year, the site owner/author will be contacted and the site will be removed.

Once your site has been moved to production, it will be immediately deactivated and deleted after two weeks without notification.

The development environment is not intended as storage area for archives or backups of websites already released to production. Multiple copies of the same website will not be permitted. e.g. sitename, sitename1, sitename-copy

  • Dev is the working environment made available to Toronto Metropolitan University employees to design and build new websites (or redesign existing sites).

  • The development environment simulates the production environment (as closely as possible).

  • Content authors can build new sites using all available templates, components and features.

  • All updates and customizations that are available in production are made available for use in the development environment.

  • Users can publish content and provide a unique development URL for approvers to review content before it goes live. For example: dev.torontomu.ca/your-site-name

  • If you are planning a major site change or redesign, this work should be done in development.  

  • Once a site is completed in development, it is moved to the production environment - https://aemauthor.torontomu.ca/aem/start.html  and published.

  • Once the site is moved to production, authors will modify, create and publish content in production, not in dev.

  • Content published in the production environment is considered "live or public" and is viewed on torontomu.ca/site-name

  • Content published in dev is not "live" but can be viewed at www.dev.torontomu.ca/site-name

  • Content on torontomu.ca is indexed by search engines, making it searchable

  • Content on www.dev.torontomu.ca cannot be indexed and is not searchable

 

Whether you are building a brand new site, or redesigning your current one, working in a development environment is a standard best practice.    

  • Your dev site is used as a sandbox where you can create and edit pages without affecting your live content.
  • Working in dev gives you flexibility in terms of testing out a new look and feel before you releasing it to torontomu.ca.
  • Using the development environment allows project owners an opportunity to review and approve content before it gets moved to production.
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 If a development site has been requested and created but has not been edited within six months, it will be deleted from the development environment without notice.

If a development site has not been modified in over a year, it will be removed from the development environment.  

Multiple copies of the same website will no longer be permitted. e.g. sitename, sitename1, sitename-copy

Once your site has been completed and approved, you MUST request that your site be  published to the live/production site i.e. torontomu.ca/your-site-name

Publish times:

  • Activations for new websites are scheduled daily from Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
  • Activations for existing websites are scheduled daily between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.   

Lead time:

  • Your publish will require a minimum of two days notice.

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