Level 3 Configuration - Macros, Modules & Configuration Documents.

To build success you need to have solid foundations.

At the heart of Simplicity is a configuration layer that is central to the success and flexibility of Simplicity. Although many systems claim to be configuration based, few truely are. The training steps set out will help you to understand and unlock the benefits in using a rich configuration based solution.

Configuration Documents

The Simplicity application suite runs on one code base accross all Simplicity implementations. So what makes one Simplicity implementation completely different from another and the modules that are accessible within an implementation comes down to configuration. The Simplicity configuration is stored within a Simplicity configuration file (E.g. Sample.soc) just like a word document saves the letter you've written in a word document (E.g. Sample.docx). These configuration documents are stored within the client database and also published to the web server running the Simplicity Assembly Info web service for the Simplicity Desktop App to use. These documents can be opened, changed, copied and quickly becomes the IP of your specific implementation.

Configuration Modules & Macros

Modules are part of Simplicity's high level scripting configuration language that are used to gain huge efficiencies and encapsulation for components you can define that make up the conceptual Simplicity modules.

Macros are part of Simplicity's high level scripting configuration language that are used to gain huge efficiencies and provide the instruction set for applying changes to a Simplicity configuration document.

If we were to put modules and macros into the context of baking a cake then a module would be a shopping list of ingredients where no particular brand for the ingredients you could use and a macro is the set of instruction to make the cake with the set of ingredients you actually purchsed for the cake.

Level 3 Configuration - Topics Index

Identifying Your Configuration Changes. (Steps 1 - 10)
Creating Your Configuration Module. (Steps 11 - 38)
Creating Your Configuration Macro. (Steps 39 - 47)
Executing a Configuration Macro. (Steps 48 - 53)
Previewing Executed Macro Changes. (Steps 54 - 58)

Level 3 Configuration - Identifying Your Configuration Changes.

Steps 1 - 10

The following walk through takes you through the process of identifying your configuration changes with the node comparer tool using the example of creating a new pet entity configuration module.

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Level 3 Configuration - Creating Your Configuration Module.

Steps 11 - 38

The following walk through takes you through the process of creating your configuration module using the example of identified pet entity configuration changes from steps 1 - 10.

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Level 3 Configuration - Creating Your Configuration Macro.

Steps 39 - 47

The following walk through takes you through the process of creating your configuration macro using the example of your new pet module created from steps 11 - 38 using the configuration file containing the example pet configuration changes.

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Level 3 Configuration - Executing a Configuration Macro.

Steps 48 - 53

The following walk through takes you through the process of executing a configuration macro using the example of executing the new pet macro created from steps 39 - 47 against a configuration file which doesn't have pets or their associated entities configured.

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Level 3 Configuration - Previewing Executed Macro Changes.

Steps 54 - 58

The following walk through takes you through the process of reviewing that applied changes from executing a configuration macro using the example of the pet macro created from steps 39 - 47.

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