Sharing Razl Connections between User Profiles

Background

This is a quick post to demonstrate how you can share your Hedgehog Razl connections between various users who are logging into the same machine to sync content between environments.

I have been using Razl for quite some time, and can't say enough good things about the product. As Nikola Gotsev put is in his blog post, it is jewel that comes in handy to easily move the content between your various environments: http://sitecorecorner.com/2014/10/27/the-amazing-world-of-razl-part-1/.

Setting Up Connections

Our client purchased a copy of the software, and loaded it on their Staging server. We then had a developer set up the connections to each Sitecore instance in the various environments.

Within a few minutes, he could connect and sync content between 3 different environments with a few button clicks.

The Shared Connection Problem

The problem we were faced with was that non of the other developers could see the connections that the first developer had set up under his profile. Would we have to get each developer to set up the connections individually?

The Shared Connection Solution

I found the solution on Razl's FAQ page: http://hedgehogdevelopment.github.io/razl/faq.html

If you navigate to C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Hedgehog_Development\Razl.exe_Url_????, you will see a user.config file that contains all the connection information.

So, to get the connections to show up for a new developer's profile, this is what you need to do:

1. Each user needs to run Razl once. This will create the "Hedgehog_Development\Razl.exe_Url_????" folder structure and user.config file in the location mentioned above.
2. Get a copy of the user.config of the developer that initially set up the connections and replace the file in each user's C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Hedgehog_Development\Razl.exe_Url_???? location.

After this, when you they fire up Razl, the connections will show up.