Is there any way that I could maintain multiple instances of same project with different project name in the same environment ?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Chandana
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When you mean application, then yes, kind of. Applications are just containers for objects. You can add an object to multiple applications. Would that fit what your goals are?
Thanks for your quick response Stefan.
I would like to know few more things. In case if I have two different applications with same objects in the same environment, Does changes in the objects of one application affects other or not ?
Also how does the CDT's behave?
This would then be shared objects NOT copies of the objects.
If your question is more like "how to copy all objects in an application?", there is no supported way. Manual copying is not simple as you would need to modify each and every object to reference the new copies.
What is your goal?
I already have a working model and I need to change 2 to 3 objects without affecting the original functionality.
Can I have same objects in two different applications and make changes in the second one? Does this modify the existing application and CDTs?
If this is not possible, what would be the best practice ?
My goal is to make some changes in record type and check it's impact on existing objects, if everything is working fine then I need to replace the changes in the original application.
All objects in Appian have versions. Why not just modify and test. If it works, keep it. If not, go back to latest working version.
Hi Stefan,
To give some more context to this, we have a Dev version of an application and we need to release this application for testing to our client. Since it is Dev, development work we do will impact client's testing. So we are looking to create an instance say QA and release it to client for their testing. In general, cloud platforms support cloning for scalability. So we thought we can create this QA instance of our application without much manual changes to be done. Modifying every object in QA will take time for us. Please let us know if that is the only option we have in Appian.
Hi,
Can you confirm how many Appian environments you have?
If you have Dev and Test servers separately then you can deploy/Release the application in Test server then start with new development work in Dev.
Regards
Shiva
Hm ... without knowing details ... this would be a case for multiple Appian environments. Either DTP or DTAP. You deploy your app to TEST and/or ACCEPTANCE and continue development on DEV.