NERM Workflow Importing and Exporting JSON

Identity Security Cloud (ISC) ISC Discussion and Questions
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Hi All,
I am trying to export and import workflows from PROD to Sandbox, kind of a work around since we had an urgent change but the workflow was tested in Sandbox.

So while importing the JSON file, I see that additional objects other than those as part of the workflow show up during the review stage before importing.

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Can anyone please explain why this happens, what happens during review create and review update and is there anyway to prevent this from creating new objects in the sandbox tenant.

Thanks !!

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If you see unexpected items in the review list , review the UID and GUID of each object in the production environment you’re importing to ensure they match the existing objects in your sandbox tenant
When migrating an object from a lower environment to another environment, both the UID and GUID must match exactly across both environments(production and sandbox). If either of these identifiers differs, the system will treat the object as new and create a separate instance in the sandbox environment upon upload

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Hi, What if we do not want certain items to be migrated from sandbox to prod, is there a way to by pass this ? Do you think removing these items from the JSON and importing them would be a good practice.
Also, what is the difference between “review create” and “review update”. Will the items shown in “review update” be re-created too if the item is not found in PROD.

Thanks

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If there is no relation between the objects you want to remove from the JSON file and the other objects you want to keep, yes you can remove them .

  1. Under CREATE REVIEW, we review each object that will be created as a result of our import.
  2. Under UPDATE REVIEW, we review each object that will be updated, already exist in the target environment but will only be updated.
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I have one quick question. So if it shows any item that is not already there in the tenant under “UPDATE REVIEW”, will this go ahead and create new items, or will it just try to search for the item to update and fail, unlike CREATE REVIEW which will create items.

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Basically an Update Review will only process objects that already exist, and new objects will not be created as part of the update process.

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Thank you so much for the clarification.

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