Resco Tricks: How to Fix Offline HTML Files not Updating issue in Resco Woodford Projects

If you use derived (hierarchical) Resco Woodford projects you may experience some time files are not updated even after you published all solutions. This article will help you to identify possible issues and resolve them.

For more details about Resco Woodford derived projects please refer following link

https://blog.resco.net/2015/10/27/woodford-project-hierarchy/

Scenario:

We have derived project structure like following

MSFieldService -> Survey -> ClientCustomizations

We have offline html file called “ReadOnlySurvey.htm” in survey solution. Due to an urgent production issue, development team replaced that offline html file directly in client customization Woodford project (top most project). However, in next production release development team deploy Survey Woodford project but after deployment they observed “ReadOnlySurvey.htm” file didn’t update and it did not contains all the changes did in development phase.

How to fix this issue:
Once offline html file manually override in the top most project without its own project, Woodford did not apply changes came through its original project any more. To apply changes from root project to top most project, files should be in “Inherited” state not in “Overridden” state.

To fix that before you import your root project (Survey project) to Resco, you have to restore the files you overridden before.
First you should open Woodford project which contains file you overridden before (in our case “ClientCustomization” project). Then select the relevant files and click restore button in the Woodford ribbon and save. Then system will restore the file from its root project. Then you can import your project (in our case Survey project) and publish them all.

This will fix your issue and apply changes to relevant files.