I deleted & modified choice options accidently in PROD instance. Will it cause any deployment issue?

[Ankita Kolhe]

Hi Community,

I deleted & modified choice options accidently in PROD instance. Will it cause any deployment issue in PROD?

It's in custom application.

Thanks in advance!

[Anurag Tripathi]

So

Scenario 1:

IF the choices are not present in prod (deleted) and they are in your update set. It will not throw any error but get added when you move update set to prod.

Scenario 2: 

If choices are modified in prod, after it was captured in update set, then while deploying you may get an error that 'newer version of record found on local'.

At this point you can decide to skip remote update -> this will let the version on prod stay as is and not apply the version in update set

If you accept remote update -> it will apply the version from update set.

Scenario 3:

If version is update set is newer than prod, then there will not be any error and whatever is in the update set will get applied.

Hope this helps.

[AndersBGS]

Hi @Ankita Kolhe ,

It really depends if your custom application creating in DEV are utilizing the choices that were modified. If yes, then it will cause issues, hence you need to export the sys_ids from lower instance and import to PROD, to ensure that you have the same sys_id choices available. 

If my answer has helped with your question, please mark my answer as accepted solution and give a thumb up.

Best regards

Anders