Exporting & Importing Pipelines

Managing your Development Cycle

zSYNC allows for the importing and exporting or entire pipeline, to facilitate debugging, modifying and enhancing pipelines as a non-disruptive part of your development cycle:

1. A new pipeline can be developed on a private Odoo instance before being imported to your live, customer-facing system.

2. A functioning pipeline on your customer-facing system can be exported, imported to an instance which isn’t exposed to customers, further developed and tested in private, and then reimported to the original pipeline to apply updates and improvements without downtime.

3. A buggy pipeline which nonetheless provides customer value, can be similarly exported, imported to a private instance, debugged without concern about breaking the original pipeline, and reimported to update the original.

Note: Pipelines are exported and imported in JSON format.

How to Export a Pipeline

1. Export All

2. Download Selection

3. Download Selection from Action Menu

Here it’s important to note the difference between the Export and Download Pipelines options.

1. Export downloads database records as XLSX/CSV files. This is not a supported format for standard zSYNC Pipeline imports.

2. Download Pipelines provides the selected pipelines in JSON format, as needed for reimporting them later.

How to Import a Pipeline

1. Import New

Click the button to select your previously exported pipeline from your filesystem:

Then give it a new name:

2. Update Existing

Click the button to select your previously exported pipeline from your filesystem:

Then type to select an existing pipeline:

The difference between the existing and imported pipeline JSONs can be examined before accepting the change. Note the clickable navigation links.