Will custom app changes gets overridden after upgrade

[BijoyDeb]

Hi All,

I have created one custom app in our dev instance.

It has record producers, tables, workspaces, notifications etc. I haven't moved this to test instance yet as I am still working on remaining dev,

I wanted to ask 2 things-

Can I publish the app to update set and move to other instance? as we are not linking it source control/ git

Also, will all my development gets overridden for this custom app in dev If we upgrade dev instance? 
If yes, should I publish it to update set and take back up of it?

Please advise on this as I was doing these things for very first time, thanks!!

[Sandeep Rajput]

@BijoyDeb 

Question: Can I publish the app to update set and move to other instance? as we are not linking it source control/ git

Answer: Yes, you can publish the app to an update set and import it on another instance using update set. For more information please refer to https://www.servicenow.com/docs/bundle/yokohama-application-development/page/build/applications/task...

Here is the document referring to the ways an app can be shared https://www.servicenow.com/docs/bundle/yokohama-application-development/page/build/applications/conc...

Question: Also, will all my development gets overridden for this custom app in dev If we upgrade dev instance? 

Answer: None of your developments related to the custom app would get impacted with the upgrade. Only caveat here is that your development should not alter any OOTB scripts. Even if you did that you always will have an option to merge your changes with the changes came through the upgrade. None of your changes will get overriden with upgrade automatically.

Hope this helps.

[Kieran Anson]

Hi,

If you're just upgrading dev then no, your work will remain. If you perform a clone from PROD then it will be overwritten as you've yet to deploy the work to production. You can publish to an update set and then re-import. Note that once you use an update set, you can't/shouldn't start using My App Repo