Sitecore Continuous Integration DMS and the Marketing Centre
Hey all, as you know I'm a big advocate of implementing continuous integration or delivery for your Sitecore projects, in the Sitecore world much is made of the all important final step of the deployment being a Sitecore publish. We want to get the data from the master to the web database, then we can add steps to do automated web testing such as selenium testing etc, or deploy a package to DEV, UAT, PRD. There are a few options to call a publish, you will probably have seen on many other Sitecore developers blogs,: Use a publish.aspx page that calls the publish code. Web service route, by calling Sitecore ship to initiate the publish and then call a ship endpoint and parse the response to check the late completed date to check for completion. Use Sitecore rocks powercore powersell scripts to do it. Most of the time calling the publish isn't the problem from a CI sense its knowing when its finished, my preference is the Sitecore ship approach, however we use the publis