Development mode

This guide describes how to use the two working modes for Manufacturing Data Engine (MDE).

Starting on v1.5.0, Manufacturing Data Engine (MDE) has a Development Mode to protect the deployment from involuntary changes that could have an impact on the configuration of the system. By default, MDE is on Production mode (Development Mode is disabled).

Enable development mode

You can enable the Development Mode either using a REST call or the console. After enabling the Development Mode the following actions are allowed:

MDE entities (types, message classes, parsers, metadata buckets and file ingestion especifications) can be deleted.
Configuration packages can be uploaded.
Configuration packages can be activated.
Configuration packages can be removed.

If any of these actions are triggered in Production Mode (Development Mode is disabled), you will receive an error similar to this:

412 - The system is not in development mode and no delete operations can be executed. You will need to switch the environment mode to development first

For more information about configuration packages, see Configuration package lifecycle.

REST

Enable Development Mode executing the REST API request with the following information:

Method: POST.
Endpoint: /configuration/v1/environment
Request body (JSON):
```
{
    "developmentMode": true
}
```
Response code: 200 OK.

Response body (JSON):

{
    "id": "aa72b317-1148-4760-ada3-7f359f7b812e",
    "createdTime": "1742502041205",
    "operationsLogLevel": "ERROR",
    "technicalLogLevel": "DEFAULT",
    "developmentMode": true
}

Console

Enable Development Mode in the MDE web interface:

Click the Cloud Configuration tab.
Click the Production Mode toggle.
A warning banner will appear on the top of the Configurations page with the following message: "Development mode is enabled", and the tag next to the toggle will change to Development.

Enable the development mode

Enable production mode

You can disable Development Mode either using a REST call or the console.

REST

Disable the Development Mode executing the REST API request with the following information:

Method: POST.
Endpoint: /configuration/v1/environment.
Request body (JSON):
```
{
    "developmentMode": false
}
```
Response code: 200 OK.

Response body (JSON):

{
    "id": "aa72b317-1148-4760-ada3-7f359f7b812e",
    "createdTime": "1742502041205",
    "operationsLogLevel": "ERROR",
    "technicalLogLevel": "DEFAULT",
    "developmentMode": false
}

Console

Disable the Development Mode on the MDE web interface:

Click the Cloud Configuration tab.
Click the Production Mode toggle.
Confirm you want to change to Production Mode by clicking Yes, switch the mode.
The warning banner will disappear from the top of the Configurations page and the tag next to the toggle will change to Production.