Replace the placeholders in the Artifacts

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Replace Placeholders

Applies to:

The Generated Artifacts zip file contains files with placeholders for the target environment parameters.

You should replace all the placeholders to deploy to your Target System.

Replace Placeholders

A toolkit is provided in the generated artifacts to replace placeholders.

It is composed of a Powershell script to execute: replace_placeholders.ps1.

To execute commands with Powershell later in this article, please use at least version 7 provided by Microsoft. If you would like to install the latest version, please check here.

The process to follow is:

Update the replacement_config.json file with your values:
- Insert the value to replace into the value node

Details about the placeholder values to update for each Target technology are available here.

Replace the placeholders in the files:

- Open Windows Powershell (or equivalent) in the replace_placeholders.ps1 location:
- Execute the following command :
- ```
.\replace_placeholders.ps1
```
  - You should have a similar result:
- The configured values in all generated artifacts replaced the placeholders
- You can now use these files and deploy your Target system

Some parameters can be added to the replace_placeholders.ps1 command.

All are described and available by executing:

.\replace_placeholders.ps1 -help

The -ReplacementConfigPath parameter mainly allows using a replacement_config.json file in another path. It is beneficial when you are in a development mode for your project.

Example of usage:

.\replace_placeholders.ps1 -ReplacementConfigPath "C:\TEMP\Replacement config files\replacement_config_