Digital Apprenticeships Service

Employer Apprenticeship Service

	Employer Apprenticeship Service
Build
Web	https://manage-apprenticeships.service.gov.uk/

Account Api

	Account API
Client

Developer Setup

Requirements

1. Install Visual Studio with these workloads:
   • ASP.NET and web development
   • Azure development
   • .NET desktop development
2. Install SQL Server Management Studio
3. Install Azure Storage Explorer
4. Install CosmosDB Emulator
5. Administator Access

Setup

Install SSL certificates for HTTPS on IIS express

• Request a SAS connection to the certs blob storage from from Dev Ops
• Download DasIDPCert.pfx to the das-employerapprenticeshipsservice/src folder
• Open PowerShell as an administrator
• Run src\DevInstall.ps1
• DO NOT COMMIT THE UPDATED CERTIFICATE TO GIT

Open the solution

• Open Visual Studio as an administrator
• Open the solution
• Set the following as the startup projects:
  • SFA.DAS.EmployerAccounts.Web
  • SFA.DAS.EmployerFinance.Web
• Running the solution will launch the site in your browser

Publish the databases

Repeat these steps for:

1. SFA.DAS.EAS.Employer_Account.Database
2. SFA.DAS.EAS.Employer_Financial.Database

Note: If you have an existing database you may need to drop it first, to avoid the script aborting after an error on truncating data.

Steps:

• Right click on the db project in the solution explorer
• Click on publish menu item
• Click the edit button

• Select Local > ProjectsV13

• Add the project name in again as the Database name (i.e. SFA.DAS.EAS.Employer_Account.Database)
• Click publish

Add configuration to Azure Storage Emulator

The configuration is loaded from azure table storage.

• Run the Azure Storage Emulator
• Clone the das-employer-config repository
• Clone the das-employer-config-updater repository
• Run the das-employer-config-updater console application and follow the instructions to import the config from the das-employer-config directory

The two repos above are private. If the links appear to be dead make sure you are logged into github with an account that has access to these (i.e. that you are part of the Skills Funding Agency Team organization).

Create an Azure table storage account

• Create an Azure account and set up a table storage
• Create a table called Configuration and copy across these 4 rows from the employer config setup above changing the PartitionKey to "Development" from "LOCAL":

• SFA.DAS.EmployerApprenticeshipsService._1.0
• SFA.DAS.EmployerFinance_1.0
• SFA.DAS.EmployerAccounts_1.0
• SFA.DAS.EmployerApprenticeshipsService.FeaturesV2_1.0
• SFA.DAS.EmployerApprenticeshipsService.MultiVariantTesting_1.0

Set up enivronment variables

• Create two new environment variables:

• ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT set to Development
• APPSETTING_ConfigurationStorageConnectionString set to the connection string of the Azure table storage created above

Using "Action": "*" can also be used to disable all actions on the controller.

See Also

• Integration Tests
• Authorization Pipeline
• Running Jobs
• Finance