Hello everyone,
I've encountered too many times situation, where i need to make really subtle change in application, to fix some kind of error/bug.
Changes so small like:
* Add column on a report
* Update filter on picker field
* Update filter on report
* Check 'wizard mode' on path
* Reorder paths
* and other fixes requiring less than 5 minutes of work in designer studio...
Going through whole DEV/TEST/PROD workflow is overkill for those, and waiting 2+ weeks for making that change with next update is something i really want to avoid.
At this moment I'm ending up doing that changes 3 times. Once per each environment. It takes time to make it, and I'm only human, i can do a typo, or miss that ID And Name, instead of just ID.
Exporting DEV is also not really an option - there are already changes there, which shouldn't hit TEST/PROD, as they might be not ready to publish.
I suggest that we could have a feature, that would allow us to export specific elements from the configuration, this would create a smaller .bpe file with only selected changes, that could be applied as hotfixes.
It's nothing new especially for people who worked with some version control tools - cherrypicking should ring a bell :)
I have two possible solutions in my head right now, but maybe other members will have some more.
1. Possibility to select specific attribute / step / path / business rule / automation / basically any configurable object, and export it as .bpe file. I'm imagining it under right mouse button menu -> Export as Hotfix.
1a. As an extension, maybe a possibility to check multiple objects using a tree like Objects (https://docs.webcon.com/docs/2023R3/Studio/BusinessRules_General/#objects)
2. Possibility to select range from process History of Changes - sometimes creating that hotfix requires few tries, and it would be nice to be able to select a range of changes that would fix an error. (https://docs.webcon.com/docs/2023R3/Studio/Process/module_2_4_6_5)