The Applications section

All applications available to this ITP/OnLine installation are listed in the Applications section. Here you can create applications, remove applications and access the specific configuration page of each application.

Currently, the two implementations of ITP/OnLine differ with respect to changes in their Application directory, refer to paragraph The Application directory for more information. In the J2EE implementation changes take effect immediately, whereas in the ASP.NET implementation an explicit deployment step is required. The latter is achieved by clicking the "Deploy" link in the Applications section of the configuration page. This link therefore is only available in the configuration page of the ASP.NET implementation of ITP/OnLine.

In this example, Sample and Sample2 are applications that are already running. These applications can be configured by clicking the link "Configure" and removed by clicking the link "Remove". Removing an application will not delete the directory and (configuration) files belonging to the application, but will just remove the application from the administration. Adding an application with exactly the same name as the removed application will restore the application.

New applications can be added by filling out the input box Application Name. In the example pictured above, an application called "New" would be created by clicking the button Submit. After creating a new application, it still needs to be configured and customized. For more information, refer to paragraph Application configuration and paragraph Customization respectively.

Note

Only the following characters are supported in an application name:A-Z, a-z, 0-9, -, _, (, ), and <space>. Spaces at the beginning or end of the application name will be removed. Using other characters will result in unexpected behavior.

Note

When using Microsoft IIS 7, the deploy process may take a very long time (up to an hour), because of the slow access to the IIS 6 compatibility metabase. If a timeout error occurs during deployment, you can continue the process by starting the deploy process again from the main configuration page. The ITP/OnLine log file will contain an informative message once the deploy has finished successfully.

Such long loading times are to be expected in the following cases: