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Hi
We've relatively recently started using LiveCycle and we haven't found any decent way of deploying a single module between servers. The only way we currently have is to
Create a new Application on the development server with the same name as the one we are deploying to.
Copy and pase every single thing from the development Application to this new one.
Create a .lca archive of the new application
Deploy this new application to the test/live environment
The big problems with this are
This method requires the entire application to be released at once, which won't be good when we have multiple people working on different forms.
It doesn't allow us to pull the files from an external source control application (like Visual Sourcesafe)
We're not actually releasing the same thing to each environment.
Does anyone have any alternative methods for handling releases?
Thanks
Dan

Interesting. I'm not sure if I have a simple way around your immediate problem, but other customer's I've worked with handle it a bit differently.
Rather than call the application by its development phase (DEV1, TEST1), they usually call it by a more descriptive name that pertains to the project (MortgageApp, VacationRequest, FraudInvestigation, etc.) That allows you to take advantage of the version control system that is built into LiveCycle.
For example; Say I am working on an update to the NewHireRequest application, which currently has a version running in production. On the development server I load the production version (if its not already there) from an LCA. Then I right-click on the application and choose New > Application version. I give it a major and/or minor version number and click finish. Now I have a copy of the original with a new version number.
I can make any modifications to that application and export it as a new LCA. Then when I import that LCA to the test server, it will have the new version number. Once the testig is complete, the new LCA can be imported and deployed to production. Any new requests will automatically start with the last version number. Processes that are already under way will continue with the previous version until they complete.

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