Synchronising projects

[jonhoward]

I have 2 projects DEV and LIVE. There are objects in DEV that are newer than in LIVE, which is expected since development work is ongoing. However there are objects in LIVE that are newer than in DEV, and this is not good because it means objects have been built in LIVE and not gone through the DEV--> LIVE migration process. There are also objects in LIVE that don't even exist in DEV. The objects may or may not differ in definition between the 2 projects. For clarity, I'm not talking about objects built by end-users, I'm referring to discrepencies in both projects on schema and base objects.

What would be the most straightforward way of synchronising the 2 projects so that I get a DEV(clean) project that I can migrate to a LIVE(clean) project? I'm thinking of making the developers work through the 2 projects manually to identify the correct object version and where appropriate Object Manager them from LIVE to DEV (ie backwards), then when that's complete (effectively) drop the LIVE project and duplicate DEV to become a newer LIVE project.

 

[teccum]

You can also use Project Merge Wizard (If you have)
and choose the option of "Keep both" as the rule to
merge 'DEV' and 'LIVE' project to the 'DEV' project
(which would be the target project) their by, keeping
both the objects of 'DEV' and 'LIVE' in the 'DEV'
project and then the developers can validate and
compare the required objects in the 'DEV' project
and then finally duplicate it as 'LIVE' or you can use
Object Manager.

By doing this the 'lIVE' project is not disturbed and
the users can still use it since the changes are being
made only in the DEV. I believe it is much quicker to
do through this approach.

teccum.