HTML Publish automation and the need to be logged in

[Eamonn John Casey]

I have made a utility to run the HTML Publish automatically on a Schedule but the user needs to be logged into the machine for it to work. Does anyone know of a workaround to make this work? I read about a Windows Service wrapper but that only seems to wrap my utility and not the Enterprise Architect instance.

What I really want is to be able to Reference models from Confluence where we do documentation.
Will WebEA/Pro Cloud help here?

Thanksin advance,
Eamonn J.

[qwerty]

Has been mention many times before: you need a logged on user to operate EA. Use a workstation and a post-it "Do NOT log off".

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[Simon M]

Will WebEA/Pro Cloud help here?

Absolutely.

Pro Cloud provides a HTML view into your model, there's no reason to run a HTML report at all.

[Nizam]

I have made a utility to run the HTML Publish automatically on a Schedule but the user needs to be logged into the machine for it to work. Does anyone know of a workaround to make this work? I read about a Windows Service wrapper but that only seems to wrap my utility and not the Enterprise Architect instance.

What I really want is to be able to Reference models from Confluence where we do documentation.
Will WebEA/Pro Cloud help here?

Thanksin advance,
Eamonn J.

You can run your application in Session 0, your application will then execute EA in Session 0 too .  This runs the application at an elevated privilege and without any active user session.
Refer
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askperf/2007/04/27/application-compatibility-session-0-isolation/
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682429.aspx

(PS - Windows Server 2016 does not support Interactive Services)

[Glassboy]

You can run your application in Session 0, your application will then execute EA in Session 0 too .  This runs the application at an elevated privilege and without any active user session.

Session 0 is unlikely to be a context that will authenticate against a database in a situation where you are using integrated security.

[Nizam]

You can run your application in Session 0, your application will then execute EA in Session 0 too .  This runs the application at an elevated privilege and without any active user session.

Session 0 is unlikely to be a context that will authenticate against a database in a situation where you are using integrated security.

For automated publishing we could have an admin user / dedicated user to open  the repository. We've done automated HTML, DocX and XML publishing engines for a few of our clients who use EA Security as well

[Uffe]

There is something called Scheduled Tasks in the cloud server. This appears to be exactly what's needed: a way to do EA things in a server context.

However, this is "currently" limited to updating a time series chart and has been since it was first introduced, so it's demo-level functionality. Maybe if enough users push for it, this could be extended to run an HTML report and other useful things (see more suggestions here).

Unfortunately, I think it's unlikely we'll see any movement on this. The scheduled tasks functionality seems destined to remain a (nother) demo hack that no one uses, and Sparx likely see this problem as a way to push users onto the $3000-$8000 per year cloud server. And that can't do server-side automation either -- it only gives you an HTML view, which is not the same as a generated HTML report.

/Uffe