2.1 When No Staging Environment Exists

If you are new to Package Deployment Tool and have no staging environments, you will see the following window:

You are directed to the Staging menu by default, where you can first set up a staging environment.

A typical staging environment consists of a stage set with different stages.

  1. To create a stage set:

    1. Click .

    2. Specify the values for all the fields marked with an asterisk (*) in the Create Stage Set window.

      NOTE:

      • You cannot change the specified ID later.

      • Do not use special characters, such as space, hyphen, and underscore in the ID field.

    3. (Optional) Specify a description of the stage set.

    4. Click Create.

  2. To add a new stage to the newly created stage set:

    1. On the left pane, select the stage set you created, then click .

    2. Specify the values for all the fields marked with an asterisk (*) in the Create Stage window.

      NOTE:

      • You cannot change the specified ID later.

      • Do not use special characters, such as space, hyphen, and underscore in the ID field.

    3. (Optional) Specify a description of the stage.

    4. Click Create.

After successfully creating the staging environment, the following window appears on the home screen:

The left navigation pane displays the staging environments, where you can select the stage you want to work with from the drop-down list. When you log in to the Package Deployment Tool, it takes you to the Home menu, which is the default landing page.