Hi. We need more precise information regarding advice and best practices for doing a rollback / reverting a direct deploy. We intend to do a big deploy which restructures a lot of tables, processes, rule expressions and interfaces. We want to have a rollback plan if anything goes wrong, but i dont find any option in the deploy panel for rollbacks or reverts.any info is welcomed.
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My best suggestion is to do an export of the current version of your app from the target environment. There isn't "rollback" functionality per se, but for almost every object type you should be able to deploy a backup export of the older version over top of the updated version and everything will iterate "back" to the original state.
Thank you. is there any kind of restriction for exporting and importing apps into appian? Because this specific system contains several thousands of image files.
Thousands of images as design objects? Or user generated content?
They are files uploaded by end users that are stored in an Appian folder.
OK. Then these files are not part of the application package you could deploy or roll back.
as Stefan pointed out, files uploaded by end users in your Prod environment would not be affected at all by a deployment, so wouldn't be something you'd generally need to worry about rolling back.
Okay interesting, that makes sense. I assumed that by "exporting" an application, I was exporting everything from an app, including files uploaded by users. But now I understand that i am actually exporting the app itself, and as you mentioned the files wont be affected by my deploy so i can simple re-import the app to do the rollback. Thanks stefan for your information.