The sharedConfig.properties file used to be the only location of a repository’s Promotion property settings, but now many of them are also stored in the EPIM database and can be accessed through the EnterWorks Classic UI. In order to maintain backward compatibility, if a property is not available in the database, EnterWorks will fall back to reading the property from the sharedConfig.properties file.
If you are modifying Promotion properties in the EW classic UI, you do not have to restart EnterWorks services. However, if you are modifying the sharedConfig.properties file you will have to restart services for the new property values to take effect.
If you migrate a repository, its Promotion properties will be migrated as well.