How to copy form design from one instance to another?

Nowlearner · ‎01-25-2018

I have designed the incident form in one instance which looks good and i want it to export the same form view to the other instance, how can i do this? Any ideas?

Prateek kumar · ‎01-25-2018

We can try something like this

1. Navigate to sys_update_xml.LIST from the filter navigator.

2.Locate your record(in your case form layout), open it and from the related links click show related record and export the XML

3. From filter navigator, navigate to System UI> Form Sections

4. right click on the column header and click on Import XML

Please mark my response as correct and helpful if it helped solved your question.
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poyntzj · ‎09-14-2018

I did this a long time ago for when an update caused a problem on a view on a target instance

The issues is that there are more that just form sections to copy

The two attachments are what I wrote to do this

The first is what you run in a background script on your target instance. Change the values at the top for table and view and it will remove the offending entries

The update set will add an option on the source to sys_ui_form table so when you are in a form there is a new link "Export Form". This will generate an XML file that has the form, the sections, and the elements