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A master site is a site that can share its configurations with all other sites under the same host. You can use those shared configurations to specify settings in these sites in the same manner as their local configurations. With this concept, you can maintain and share common configurations and reduces the requirement to duplicate them between sites.
From the IDE you can:
- Set any site as the master site. Every root can have only one master site.
- Maintain and manage the master site as usual. You cannot open and edit the master site’s configurations in the current site. To do that, you must switch to the master site.
- Select the master site’s
configurations in the dialog box selection lists.
Except for NetConfig, all other configurations in the master site are selectable in each site.
When the current site's configuration has the same name as the one in the master site, the dialog box selection list only shows a single instance. The one in the current site takes precedence.
Master site configuration objects are only editable from within the master site, but can be used for runtime for any site. Local sites can reference the master site’s configuration files, but cannot open or modify the configuration. To modify the master site definition, you must switch to the master site.
You cannot see the master site files in a local site’s Site Manager or any open dialog box where you can open the configuration files. In places where you can reference a configuration file, you can see the master site’s item in the list.
For example, a masterHL7 variant is defined in the master site. When you create a new xlate file in the local site, you can select masterHL7 as an inbound or outbound format. You cannot see the masterHL7 in the local site’s Site Manager HL7 variant list.