Registering Marketing Operations manually

If the Marketing Operations installer cannot connect with the Marketing Platform system table database during the installation, your installation fails. In this case, you must register Marketing Operations manually.

About this task

Even if the installers fail to connect to the system tables, the installation process proceeds. In this case, you must import the product information into the Marketing Platform system tables manually.

The configTool utility that is mentioned in this procedure is in the tools/bin directory under your Marketing Platform installation. For detailed instructions on using the configTool utility, see configTool.

Complete the following steps to register Marketing Operations manually:

Procedure

  1. Set the environment variable by completing following actions:
    • For Windows™, set an environment variable named NAVIGATION_DIR to the Marketing Operations conf directory.
    • For Unix, set an environment variable named $NAVIGATION_DIR to the Marketing Operations conf directory.
  2. Run the configTool utility by using the following example commands as guidelines.
    • For Windows, use the following commands:

      configTool.bat -v -i -p "Affinium" -f "%NAVIGATION_DIR%\plan_registration.xml"

      configTool.bat -v -i -p "Affinium|suite|uiNavigation|mainMenu" -f "%NAVIGATION_DIR%\plan_navigation_operations.xml"

      Run the following command if the Financial Module is installed in Marketing Operations.

      configTool.bat -v -i -p "Affinium|suite|uiNavigation|mainMenu|Analytics" -f "%NAVIGATION_DIR%\plan_navigation_analytics.xml"

      configTool.bat -v -i -p "Affinium|suite|uiNavigation|settingsMenu" -f "%NAVIGATION_DIR%\plan_navigation_settings.xml"

      configTool.bat -v -i -p "Affinium|suite|uiNavigation|alerts" -f "%NAVIGATION_DIR%\plan_alerts_registration.xml"

      configTool.bat -v -i -p "Affinium|suite|uiNavigation|mainMenu" -f "%NAVIGATION_DIR%\plan_navigation_financials.xml"

      configTool.bat -v -i -p "Affinium|suite|quicklinksCategory" -f "%NAVIGATION_DIR%\umo_quicklinks_registration.xml"

    • For Unix, use the ./configTool.sh file to run configTool utility with the help of following commands:

      ./configTool.sh -v -i -p "Affinium" -f "$NAVIGATION_DIR/plan_registration.xml"

      ./configTool.sh -v -i -p "Affinium|suite|uiNavigation|mainMenu" -f "$NAVIGATION_DIR/plan_navigation_operations.xml"

      Run the following command if the Financial Module is installed in Marketing Operations.

      ./configTool.bat -v -i -p "Affinium|suite|uiNavigation|mainMenu|Analytics" -f "$NAVIGATION_DIR/plan_navigation_analytics.xml"

      ./configTool.bat -v -i -p "Affinium|suite|uiNavigation|settingsMenu" -f "$NAVIGATION_DIR/plan_navigation_settings.xml"

      ./configTool.bat -v -i -p "Affinium|suite|uiNavigation|alerts" -f "$NAVIGATION_DIR/plan_alerts_registration.xml"

      ./configTool.sh -v -i -p "Affinium|suite|uiNavigation|mainMenu" -f "$NAVIGATION_DIR/plan_navigation_financials.xml"

      ./configTool.bat -v -i -p "Affinium|suite|quicklinksCategory" -f "$NAVIGATION_DIR/\umo_quicklinks_registration.xml"

      Note: In case manual registration, if Marketing Platform is not installed on same computer as Marketing Operations, you must install the Marketing Platform tools on the computer or copy the Marketing Operations xml configuration files to your computer.