Importing same project into environment

Hi,

I am trying to import the same application into the same dev environment. How do I do this without overwriting the existing applications?

How do I edit the branding of one application without changing them all?

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    I'm not quite sure what you mean by "overwriting the existing applications".  Applications aren't 'overwritten' as such - if you re-import an identical application with identical versions of an identical set of artifacts (as in, you export an app package from an environment and then immediately try to re-import it to that same environment), Appian will recognize that the objects are the same, and unchanged, and basically skip all of them.  If a particular objects is the same but you're importing an app package with a different version, then that version will be imported as a new version of that object.

    As far as your Branding question - can you describe a bit more about what "application branding" you're referring to?

  • Hi Sean - 

    An Application is just a collection of objects.

    Exported objects re-imported into the same environment have the same UUID, so they would not be duplicated on import.

    2 Applications can reference a single object, or put another way, a single object can be referenced by multiple applications.

    You can copy most object types in 19.4.

    What are you really trying to do?