Description of how to use Commerce Server Staging (CSS) project filters at a command prompt (921487)

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Syntax for including filters when you add a CSS project by using the css addproj command

To add a CSS project from a command line by using filters, type the following command:Note The globalflags variable includes the following switches:

• /server servername
• /user username [pass | *]

Filter switches have the following options.

Switch	Option
+filter	Includes a file filter or a directory filter
-filter	Excludes a file filter or a directory filter
\	Applies a filter to directories
...\	Applies a filter to all subdirectories
filter	A file filter or a directory filter that can use wildcard characters

The following is an example of a filter that has switches: This filter does the following:

• Includes the Text1.txt file
• Excludes all files that end in .exe that exist in the project root directory
• Excludes the Directory1 directory
• Includes all *.jpg files in all the directory trees

Syntax for including more than one directory in a filter

To include more than one directory in a filter, type the following command: Note Make sure that there is a space character after the last backslash (\) and before the closing quotation marks.

You can also use wildcard characters in directory names. For example, you can exclude the _vti_* directories that are installed with FrontPage Server Extensions from Microsoft. Additionally, you can include all directories that have names that start with myWeb, such as myWeb01. To do this, type the following command:

Syntax for file names and for directory names that have space characters

Space characters in a file name or in a directory name may cause problems in the command line syntax for CSS project filters. To work around these problems, you can use wildcard characters to bypass the space character in the name. For example, you can exclude a subdirectory under the replication root directory that is named My Folder. To do this, type the following command: