Duplicating project in the same environment

RE: Duplicating project in the same environment

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 10 May 2021 06:35:37 GMT

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.

RE: Duplicating project in the same environment

Shiva Valusa — Mon, 10 May 2021 06:29:02 GMT

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

RE: Duplicating project in the same environment

tthiru — Mon, 10 May 2021 05:52:14 GMT

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.

RE: Duplicating project in the same environment

Stefan Helzle — Sun, 09 May 2021 12:30:00 GMT

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.

RE: Duplicating project in the same environment

chandanaa0002 — Sun, 09 May 2021 12:03:41 GMT

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.

RE: Duplicating project in the same environment

Stefan Helzle — Sun, 09 May 2021 11:30:06 GMT

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?

RE: Duplicating project in the same environment

chandanaa0002 — Sun, 09 May 2021 11:26:06 GMT

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?

RE: Duplicating project in the same environment

Stefan Helzle — Sun, 09 May 2021 11:14:59 GMT

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?