Deploy artifact without touching a certain subfolder?

[Justinvolved]

Hi,

I have been working on deployment of a web frontend that is managed by a CMS. In my build artifact I have all the files needed to redeploy, except for a folder "Images" that should be untouched during deployment. The images folder is managed by end users in the CMS.

I'm looking for a solution where I deploy the artifact, but leave the Images folder untouched. I have been trying to first copy the folder out to another folder, and then copy it back after the artifact has been deployed, but this is generating a variety of access denied messages at seemingly random points, which give me the feeling this is not a reliable solution.

Any other approaches that could be applied here?

Best regards,

Justin

[atripp]

Hi @Justinvolved ,

In this case, I would recommend staging the artifact files first, and then transferring them. Here is the OtterScript you can use for that:

Deploy-Artifact;

Transfer-Files
(
    ToDirectory: c:\websites\the-website-root,
    Exclude: Images\**
);

Cheers,
Alana

[Justinvolved]

Hi @atripp,

Thanks, that does sound like a good plan.
Altough the script now executes without error, something is wrong, because the log seems to say the artifact was deployed correctly to the working dorectory. but it contains 0 files.

However when I browse the Artifact I can see it does contain files. I must have something wrong still:

Thanks,
Justin

[rhessinger]

Hi @Justinvolved,

That message that says "currently contains 0 items" is just telling you that the folder that the artifact is deploying to contains 0 files. After that, it will deploy the artifact files. If you enable verbose logging (setting Verbose: true), you will see all the files transferred from the artifact to the working directory.

Thanks,
Rich