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Posted on by Hilda Steyn

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This will probably a very stupid question to some, but I really need some guidance.

I have a production environment in which there is an unmanaged solution.

We planned the app in the solution in phases. Phase 1 is done, the app is launched, and the users are using it.

Now I have to start on phase 2. Surely I don't want to do this in a production environment. So I created a sandbox environment and copied the production environment to it.

If I now work and make changes in the sandbox, how do I get those changes into the production environment without affecting the data already there? Surely I can't copy the sandbox over to production; that doesn't sound logic at all.

Do I export the solution and import it into production? What happens to the data sitting in production then?

How do you handle ongoing development?

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Guido Preite 1,490 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Solutions do not hold data, they hold metadata (how the tables are structured, views, plugins code, etc etc).

If you need guidance on this topic, the name is ALM (Application lifecycle management)

Easiest way for your situation will be to keep both solutions unmanaged, when you want to carry the changes from sandbox to production you export the solution from sandbox to production and publish your changes.

Ideally in this way you never make changes directly in productions, otherwise you risk that you have incompatibilities when you export the solution.

The topic is complex

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Solutions don't remove the data, they just add new customizations over existing ones.
You can just create a new unmanaged solution on your Sandbox environment, include the changes you want to deploy to Production, then export from Sandbox and deploy to Production.

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