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Posted on by criztina 35
Hi. My extension besides some reports includes a table and a page for the users to enter some data. I was able to publish an initial version to Production, enter some data, uploaded a second version and saw the data was still there. Now, I thought that by uploading a second version this was going to replace the first one but when I went to installed extension there were the two versions, none of them were installed. So, I unpublished the first one and installed the second one and now my data is gone and I'm afraid this will happen any time I upload a new version. Our vendor has its own extension and in the installed extension page only shows once, and when looking at the installation status page I can see a long list of all their previous versions, so can anybody help explaining what is the best way to manage extension updates? Every time I upload a new version should I delete the previous one? or is there a way to indicate I want to replace the previous one? and more importantly, what should I do to not loss the data entered in a previous version? Any help will be appreciated!
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    YUN ZHU 73,565 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
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    Hi, If you want to install the updated extension in the next version, you can select the following option when uploading, so that your extension will be automatically updated as the environment is updated.
     
    Hope this helps as well.
    Thanks.
    ZHU
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    gdrenteria 12,167 Most Valuable Professional on at
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    Hi
    As our colleagues have indicated, installing a new version is certainly responsible for maintaining the data and updating it, automatically uninstalling the previous version.
    Best
    GR
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    criztina 35 on at
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    I don't believe I marked the option to delete orphaned data, my only explanation is that the prior version needed to be installed before uploading a new one in order to keep the data. Also, I was told that old version will disappear with major updates, so that will help cleaning older versions from the Installed extensions page. Your post about forced sync will be highly useful when deploying new versions, thank you!
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    YUN ZHU 73,565 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
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    Hi, Did you change the app id? Generally, if you do not execute the Delete Orphaned Extension Data action, the data will remain in the environment.
     
    In addition, there are some factors that may cause data loss.
    Business Central 2021 wave 2 (BC19): In-depth testing for Force Sync mode in Production Environment (Renaming tables, Renaming fields, Changing field type…)
     
    Hope this helps.
    Thanks.
    ZHU
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    criztina 35 on at
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    Thank you for replying. We haven't had this problem when publishing to the sandbox, there was always only one extension in the Installed Extension page, this is happening only in Prod, do you know what things should I verify to make sure the extension is designed correctly?
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    Sami Ullah 284 on at
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    Hi,
    Do not manually unpublish the previous version of the extension. When a new version is uploaded, Business Central should automatically handle the update if the extension is designed correctly. Uninstalling the old version manually may result in data loss, as it clears the data tables. For future updates, simply upload the new version without unpublishing the previous one.

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