It's often necessary to transfer one or more widgets from one Iotellect Server installation to another. This can be the case of moving to a production server from a development one, or just partial replication of configuration during distributed installation setup.
There are three basic ways to transfer widgets between servers:
Copy/move the whole database from one server to another. If the database server was running on a standalone machine and the old Iotellect Server won't be longer used, it's possible to just stop the old server and re-configure the new one to connect to the same database. Moving the whole database will transfer all widgets, along with the full server configuration.
For bulk transfer of widgets, use Export/Import actions of Widgets context. This will allow moving all or selected widgets of a certain user at once.
In fact, the widget itself is its XML template plus several minor options (such as name, description and type). Therefore, it's also possible to open the XML template of a widget and send it to another server (e.g. via e-mail). On the target server, it will be necessary to create a new widget, set up its name/description and other options, and insert the XML template copied from the source server.
