Is there a way to skip specific files when publishing a scoped app?

[Charlie Haley]

Wondering if there's a way to skip a specific record when publishing. We have a UI action on a scoped app that redirects to a URL but the client is wanting it to be a different URL in each instance. Dev, test, etc.

[Tom Sienkiewicz]

Hi Charlie,

a good practice in that cas would be not to hardcode the URL in the UI Action, but to create a system property to store it. Then it is really easy to set it up correctly on each instance, plus you can create clone preserves for it etc.

Otherwise, I am not aware of a way to skip a specific configuration file. IIRC, if you just remove a file in the related list under the application form, it will delete the actual UI Action too, which I guess is not what you want.

So my best advice is refactor your app as suggested above 🙂

[Andy Homar]

What about excluding system properties so they are preserved in production?

[Andy Homar]

https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-blog/how-to-work-with-app-repository-instance-specifi...

Great Article that answers this question.