how to export the groups and the existing members inside from Dev to Production?

[Raju Singh1]

Hello Experts,

I have created 3 groups in Dev and three members inside it. I want it to move it to the production. What is the best practice to move it.

Is there any way to move these groups and the members inside it. I do not want it to manually create it as there are too many members in the group.

Regards,

Raju Singh

[Dubz]

Hi Raju,

The groups you have configured can be moved across in an update set but the group memberships are data so won't be moved. if you right click on the breadcrumbs in the groups members tab and click open in new window you can then right click on a column and export to XML. Then you can open the group on prod and import from XML in the same way and it will populate your group membership with the data exported from dev.

[Raju Singh1]

Hi David,

I just tried the steps which you provided.

I have tried this in oob Instance. I tried to add the group members from a group to 'Network' to the Group CAB Approval. But when I check the Network Group, there is no member added yet.

I exported the members of the Group 'CAB Approval'   to XML then imported the same way this XML to the other group   'Network' but there is no change in the total count of the members of 'Network' Group. No change.

You can try it for your oob Instance Please.

[Gowrisankar Sat]

Hi Raju,

Every group will have different group members.

Ex:

Group Network has A,B members

Group CAB Approval has no members

When you try moving members from Network   to CAB Approval through XML, the members in XML will be associated to Network group not CAB Approval. In that case you have to add the group members manually.

[Dubz]

Gowrisankar is right. If you examine the XML file you exported you'll see it has recorded the sys_id of the group, this export/import will only work if you're transferring like for like.

If you need to populate other groups with the same membership you're probably better off exporting to excel, modifying the data and then either importing directly to the list or using an import set.