How to accelerate the first synchronization on Windows devices

This article's purpose is to describe how to deploy manually the result of a first synchronization and duplicate it from a Windows device to another. It basically consists in putting the content of an archive to a specific location  on a device where the app has already been installed and launched once, after the associated user has been authenticated in the administration interface.

Requirements

• The Touch & Sell app has been installed and launched once on all devices
• The users have been declared with their UUID in the admin interface

Building the contents ZIP archive

• Install the app on a first device
• Authenticate the user with their UUID in the admin interface
• Proceed to the full synchronization of contents on this device
• Build a ZIP archive with the following elements:

If you deploy via the Store: 

• C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\TheAppLab.<app_bundle_id>_8dgyajw300ytt\LocalState\documents\
• C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\TheAppLab.<app_bundle_id>_8dgyajw300ytt\LocalState\images\
• C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\TheAppLab.<app_bundle_id>_8dgyajw300ytt\LocalState\touch-sell.sqlite
  
  

If you deploy via MDM:

• C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\TheAppLab.<app_bundle_id>_0vd6zy6ad7mq6\LocalState\documents\
• C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\TheAppLab.<app_bundle_id>_0vd6zy6ad7mq6\LocalState\images\
• C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\TheAppLab.<app_bundle_id>_0vd6zy6ad7mq6\LocalState\touch-sell.sqlite

Note: This archive may be prepared by the Touch & Sell team if required.

Deploying the archive on the other devices

Proceed on all the devices to deploy:

• Extract the archive at the following location on the devices:
  C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\TheAppLab.<app_bundle_id>_8dgyajw300ytt\LocalState
  OR
  C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\TheAppLab.<app_bundle_id>_0vd6zy6ad7mq6\LocalState\documents\
  
  
• Launch the app
• Synchronize

Synchronization the theme

The theme (background and colors of the app) is not part of the contents transfered with the archive. It may be required at the end of the deployment to perform a small modification of the theme from the admin interface so that the theme's synchronization may be triggered at the next synchronization on all devices.