Can't See Scoped App in Studio After Publishing from Different Instance

[Dwayne N]

Hello, I've just started playing around with scoped app development. I created an app in Studio in our sandbox instance and published it to the repository. Then I went into to our dev instance and downloaded/installed the app from the Applications list. But now I can't seem to connect to it in our dev instance via Studio. The app I just installed doesn't show up in the list that comes up in Studio. Any ideas?

[scott barnard1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Dwayne

The studio will not let you dev in studio in an instance that isn't the one it was created in.

I ran into this recently with an app I'd created and I wanted to see some rules in the test instance and there was no entry in the studio launcher.

Went back to my dev instance where I created it and all was good.

If you go to the Applications module on any instance that its deployed on other than the creator instance you should notice that it appears in the downloads tab

Regards

[Dwayne N]

Great, thank you Scott! That makes sense now.

How does studio and the app repository handle cloning then. Say we have a an app in development that hasn't yet been installed into production but we need to synch up our instances with production. So we clone over dev with our production data. I'm assuming the app that was in development will need to be downloaded/installed from the repository. Will studio recognize that the app was originally created there, so that we can continue development?

[Nen]

Does anyone know the answer for Dwayne's follow-up question? I'm having an issue related to this. Our app isn't installed in production yet and there's been a clone over the non-prod instance. And i can't find my app in Studio even when it's showing on the Company Applications so I don't know what to do in order to continue the development.

[Syd S]

I realize this thread is several years old, but I wanted to post a reply in case someone else finds it in a search like I did.

I was having the same issue. After a clone I was able to install an app from All - My Company Applications (application repository) to our Dev instance. The application was available/usable in the instance however, it did not show in AppEngine Studio (AES). Importing an update set allowed it to show in AES but that seemed redundant to me. I figured out today that there is a "Convert to Developer Mode" option on the application details page under Related Links. After running that UI action, the app showed under AES. I was able to edit the app and move the app with our deployment pipelines. 

There might be other options but I wanted to share what worked for me. Hope it helps someone.