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Overview
PhixFlow provides the option for copying models and modelling objects creating copies of objects or application in your current PhixFlow instance. Objects These items can be moved to a separate instance of PhixFlow via the Export facility.
Copy
Copying models and modelling objects within a single instance of PhixFlow:
- Open any model and select the objects to copy.
- Right-click on the model canvas (not on the selected objects) and select Copy Selected Objects.
- Right-click on any individual object and select Copy object from the menu.
Configuration
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- Note: if you copy an analysis model it will only copy the model and not the modelling objects held within it.
Export
Objects are exported from one instance of PhixFlow to another via export, such as promoting changes from a development instance to a live instance. See Export Configuration for full details.
When an object is imported which is already in the target instance, the import process will overwrite the objects already in the target instance. If an entire application is imported that already exists in the target instance, anything which does not exist in the imported application will be permanently deleted.
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Copying Analysis Models
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Moving Configuration Between Instances
You may have several instances of PhixFlow running, for example one for developing and one for production. To move objects between different instances, export them from one instance (the source instance) and import them to another (the target instance); see Export Configuration and Import Configuration.
Moving Configuration Behaviour
- If the target instance has an object that matches one in the import, PhixFlow overwrites it with the imported object.
- If an object has been explicitly deleted from the source instance, when the configuration is imported into the target instance, PhixFlow permanently deletes the object from the target instance also.
- If an object has been added to the source instance it will be added to the target system.
- For this reason when performing an export it is only necessary to take the items that have changed,