Update 2sxc App on DNN

[carlossnts]

Recently, I upgraded 2sxc to version 19.3.4 in DNN, and now I'm wondering how I can update an existing app.

I tried simply downloading and importing it like a new app, but it returned an error: "Folder already exists." So I tried to rename the app's folder, but now I'm getting an error about a duplicate GUID.

Do I really need to delete the previous app and then install a new one? Because that would cause me to lose the configured apps on their respective pages.

[kingjordan]

I literally came here to ask this exact question. I have had to delete and re add the app but I'm hoping there is a better way because I did have an error during this process that killed my website due to 2sxc not being able to find an app listed on a page.

[iJungleboy]

If the app didn't change much, you can just manually update the files.

But if it did change a lot - especially within data structures - then it would need manual syncing of data structures etc.

So it's not seamless, since apps are more like templates than like applications, and both the source as well as the copy can change in ways which make re-uniting quite difficult.

That's status today. We do have some ideas of how to assist in the process, but just don't have the bandwidth for it.

[kingjordan]

thanks
For my app its only an angular app accessing a custom dnn api module. So all I have to do is load the new files from the live/dist/ng-app folder from local to online.