Preview and Test server deployment

[romschn]

Does anyone have any idea about Test server deployment and can give me more details on it, it would be helpful.

I am using WCM to create contents and store the contents on authoring environment.On delivery environment,I am deploying the content to DM repository.
An external front end application will render the content. Alfresco is mainly used as content repository.

Now, as I am using external application to render the contents from repository, I can easily use CMIS to fetch the contents from DM repository on delivery environment. That is perfectly fine.

However, On Authoring machine, I want to have the preview functionality as well (I can't use alfresco WCM preview functionality feature as external application renders the content).But there is below issue I am facing.
- For preview, I need to get content from user sandbox. But CMIS interface does not support fetching content from AVM stores.

So, Now thinking of exploring Test server deployment feature - what i think is deploy content from user sandbox to DM repository of test server.
Fetch the content using CMIS from DM repository of test server, preview the functionality and release the test server.

How deployment works in case of multiple users using the test servers?

If anyone have implemented this kind of scenario/any suggestions you might have, it will help.

Thanks,

[mrogers]

Test server deployment is used to provide a "preview" feature for user sandboxes.

In the multi-user example above you would configure a pool of test servers.    Users wanting to use one of the test servers would "grab" it for their exclusive use, deploy to it, use it, then return it to the pool wheth they have finished.

Another option for the DM deployment scenario is to do some sort of path mapping for each user's sandbox.

[romschn]

Thank you for the quick answer Roger.

Could you please elaborate more on 'Another option for the DM deployment scenario is to do some sort of path mapping for each user's sandbox.'

What is it? How to achieve it?

Thanks,