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Status Under review
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 26, 2026

The Host On-Demand (HOD) V 15 and V 16 Deployment Wizard tool within the Admin Client fails to see custom HTML in a defined custom location.

The issue occurs with HOD V 15 & V 16 and when attempting to use the new HOD Deployment Wizard that is available in the full Admin Client and when an administrator has setup a custom directory for his custom HTMLs and defined it according to the documentation. This means that, for instance, a HOD administrator has decided to located his custom HTMLs  
at /hod and the distributed files are located at /hodpub.

When the HOD administrator tries to select a previously defined HTML to modify, it says that he must create it first. If the HOD administrator creates a new one it is written to the /hodpub directory NOT the /hod directory. This makes this feature unusable since it is pointing to the wrong location. The HOD Deployment Wizard tool needs to respect the fact that a HOD administrator is using a different directory for his custom HTMLs and read/write there. The custom directory is set in the setInstPath.sh script something alike the following:

HOD_INST_DIR=/opmshr/HODSYS/hostondemand
MY_PUBLISHED_DIRECTORY=/opmshr/HODConfig/ISYSHOD

Since the HOD Deployment Wizard tool does NOT allow for overriding the directory it is necessary for the Deployment Wizard tool to behave as / like was specified. The Deployment Wizard tool should be using the value from the MY_PUBLISHED_DIRECTORY variable to determine where to read and write to.
Such a HOD administrator needs this method of using the HOD Deployment Wizard since the workstation version requires admin authority to install. For one who has NO admin privileges on his desktops this function becomes unusable. As part of this HOD Deployment Wizard tool there should be a backup process to backup the files that you are changing to another directory of the users choosing.

Idea priority Urgent