Anyone using BAC (Business Adminstartion Change) utility in UI or Commandline for Deployments?

[ssg]

Version: Windchill 12.1

Use Case: Our use case. we have Non Prod environments DEV TEST PRODUCTION.

Using BAC can we import all the business admin changes  from lower environments which are executed on DEV -> Test and later to Production?

Description:

as of now we are loading Business admin changes (ACLs,OIR,Workflows,Lifecycle,etc) through load commands ..
need more info on usage of BAC in Production deployments .

anyone using in real time ?

[shussaini]

You can find the supported objects for BAC here. There are also some tutorials available here.

Hope this helps.

regards

~Syed

[ssg]

Thanks for the information . Documents are there , anyone using in Production deployments wanted to confirm.

Problem am facing in BAC utility is Target system import only works of new Objects.
it will throw error like already exists for all the existing Items . Generaly Workflows, TypeDefenition , ACLs,OIrs are iterative .

wanted to know any organizations in real time they are using BAC utility for Test to Production Deployments ?

[avillanueva]

 I have lots of questions here so I have not had time to explore using it. I think in my setup I would run into issues. Ideally, all your instances would be the same and things would flow upward. In my case, test is a clone of prod and dev is a clean new install. The BAC elements are manually imported the old fasioned way. There are inherient differences. For those who have used this, is there an easy process to ensure all are in sync as a starting point so that changes can flow via a process. It took me a while to get a flow for just code changes but its so much easier now to push code from instance to instance. Lots more to do there. 

[joe_morton]

I've started dabbling with it. It's not easy to use (in my opinion). We have dev and test systems that are all cloned from prod. I can easily export and import a workflow template (for example), but if I try to make a BAC package of that same workflow template, I get errors importing it. I think there must be more setup required to get it to work correctly.

The worst part is that the errors are entirely vague and not helpful.