Application XML *only* clone back/down

[Bob Loblaw]

Hello,

For one of our applications, the Prod version is much different than the Dev version (which is junky). There are no plans for a platform-wide clone down/back, so I had these questions:

• Can we create an Application XML file of the Prod version and then import it into Dev, thus "wiping out" the current Dev version and therefore making the Prod and Dev versions the same?
• If there are extra design elements in the Dev version (tables, BRs, scripts, etc.) that aren't in the Prod version, will those just get deleted?

Any information would be appreciated - thanks!

[DrewW · Accepted solution]

You could export the application to an update set in production then export that update set and import it into Dev.  You are going to get a lot of errors in the commit that you will need to make sure you take the remote version of.  But then you are going to have to delete the new things that are not in prod from the dev instance.  Its going to be really messy.

Ultimately the only way to really role it back is to clone over from prod.