Platform SDK: Team Productivity Update

Instantiation Arguments Reference

The Team Productivity Update passes seven arguments to an application's Instantiation URLs (bstrInstantiate, Configure, and Deploy) upon their launch.

The following table describes each argument.

Argument Description
OwnerGroup The name of the local Windows NTŪ group that the Team Productivity Update uses to enumerate the requesting Team Workspace owners. OwnerGroup is not passed to the Configure URL.
MemberGroup The name of the local Windows NT group that the Team Productivity Update uses to enumerate the requesting Team Workspace members. MemberGroup is not passed to the Configure URL.
TeamWorkspaceID The GUID that identifies the Team Workspace adding the application.
TeamWorkspaceName This is the friendly name of the Team Workspace.
FactoryID The GUID that identifies the application that is instantiated in Team Workspaces. This is the original copy of the application, also known as the application template.
ConfigSessionID The GUID used to track the session for an application deployed with a Application Factory type of TAFT_FACTORY.
InstanceID The GUID created by the Team Productivity Update for the instance of the application being instantiated. It can be used with FriendlyNameFromGUID to get the friendly name for this instance of the application.
InstanceName The friendly name of this instance of the application. The friendly name is available before the Configure URL is invoked.
Roles The populated list of Team Workspace owners and members. This list is available before the Configure URL is invoked. For more information, see Roles XML Reference.

The Instantiation URLS, Configure and Deploy, can obtain these arguments using the Form method of the Active Server Pages (ASP) Request object.