PAD

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It is Planning Administrator Domain. For managing multiple applications in contributor. Multiple PADs can be created in contributor but at a time only one PAD can be viewed.

It manages-

1. Security Information

2. Datastores for contributor applications

3. Job servers/clusters

4. Administration links info

5. Macros info

 



When PAD is created the configuration wizard creates and populates the datastore. Total 2 data stores are created.

• PAD Datastore- contains only security profile
  


• Common Datastore- contains the jobs which are executed by job servers
  

Job Server Cluster- a group of servers to execute admin jobs. (e.g. Publish)

After the PAD is created, we create contributor applications for use.

Steps to create a contributor application-

1. Starting create application process
   


2. Getting application xml
   


3. Creating and populating application


4. Creating planning admin domain (PAD) relationships


5. Assign application to job server(s) or job server cluster(s)


6. Create application process completed.