Exporting/Importing recipes best practices

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[Dec 12, 2020] Mike Power (CRM Enterprise Architect at American University) posted:

Does anyone have “best practices” or steps they follow when it comes to properly exporting recipes/dependencies and then importing them into their test or prod environment in Workato?  We’re still relatively new to Workato and thus far our few attempts have had a lot of recipes being duplicated, extra connections being created, dependencies being pulled in that aren’t needed or haven’t changed, etc.

It's been a bit messy, which makes me think we’re just doing something wrong.

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[Jan 9, 2021] Deven Maru (CSM at Workato) replied: Thanks for the feedback John. I'll review if the same module can be reused for recipe version comparison as well.

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[Jan 9, 2021] Gary Wilkinson (Director, Enterprise Architecture at ePlus) replied:

Hi Deven,

I think we may have previously discussed this, count ePlus as another customer who is very much in favor of the “Diff” feature and looking forward to its rollout.

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[Jan 9, 2021] Deven Maru (CSM at Workato) replied: Hi Gary,

Yes, we have. Will definitely keep you posted on it.

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[Jan 9, 2021] Gary Wilkinson (Director, Enterprise Architecture at ePlus) replied: I was assuming it would include comparing versions in the version history and not just across manifests (since those seem to be going away).