Creating a New Arena

From the perspective of the application, an arena is a single database that stores data about the group whose performance the application tracks and the HTML pages that support each locale in the arena. From the perspective of the business problem, the arena is the industry-specific terminology that provides the meaning and context for the forms, lists, and tables that comprise the arena's visible user interface. Each arena includes the localized HTML pages that present the user interfaces for different locales.

The following procedures explain how to insert a new arena after you've deployed the generic arena and cloned it. See Deploying Multiple Arenas for information about cloning arenas. This procedure assumes that you have either installed the sample database or chosen to create an empty instance of the Eval database. If you deploy your second arena on the same installation of BackOffice Server, you do not need to redeploy the DLLs. After they are registered, every arena on the computer can use them.

To insert a new arena

  1. Copy an existing lingo.xml file and customize it for the new arena, and then copy the new lingo.xml file and customize it for the appropriate languages.
  2. Log on as an Administrator or member of the administrators group.
  3. Open Microsoft® Visual InterDev®. To do this click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Visual Interdev 6.0, and then click the right panel that also reads Microsoft Visual Interdev 6.0.
  4. Visual InterDev will open with the New Projects window appearing in the foreground. Click the Existing tab, and then double-click the project folder for the application (for example, PT).
  5. Double-click the project to launch it.
  6. In the Project Explorer (upper right) pane, expand the path (Server/Directory) for the project. Expand a language locale folder (for example, en-us). Right-click the lingo.xml file to bring up the menu, and then click Delete to delete the file.
  7. Right-click the locale folder (in this example, en-us) to bring up the menu. Point to Add, and then click Add Item. Click the Existing tab and type or navigate to the lingo.xml file that you want to use to replace the previous lingo file.
  8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 to insert any localized lingo.xml files into the appropriate language locale folders.
  9. Delete any existing files that you want to rebuild.
  10. Rebuild the application. See Building the New Arena.