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What is the proper way to perform a full push/refresh on all entities that are usually incremental push?

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We have approximately 180 entities that we export daily. We recently discovered that some changes had been made to some entities that weren't being reflected in the exports, and that we needed to perform a full push. Based on documentation and information we have found, the process would be:

  1. Run the 'Refresh Entity List' job
  2. In each Entity Store, select all published entities and click Publish to rebuild the tables with any schema changes
  3. Remove each entity from the export project and re-add it as incremental push only to recreate the mapping.

My question mostly revolves around question 3 - Are there alternatives to this?

  • Is republishing the entities enough to trigger a full push, or do we need to add and drop from the export project as well?
  • In lieu of removing and readding to the export project, can (or should) we remove all entities from the export project, and re-import the file?

And lastly, are we missing any steps? Is there anything else we should be doing for this process?

For context:

  • A full push takes ~3 hours, vs 5 mins for the incremental run
  • We have 2 data export projects, one with ~170 and one with < 10.

Thank you!

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    Mohit Rampal Profile Picture
    Mohit Rampal 12,554 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: What is the proper way to perform a full push/refresh on all entities that are usually incremental push?

    You need to add and remove data entity in project again. Generate mapping in Data project will not work. I tried deleting one field in data entity that we are using for BYOD. Then Generated mapping in BYOD Data project and the field is still there.

    If you want, you can try same with adding/deleting a field one of your data entity, test it and revert your change.

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    cdicentes 10 on at
    RE: What is the proper way to perform a full push/refresh on all entities that are usually incremental push?

    Thank you - based on this, it sounds like we can change step 3 in our process to opening the data projects and 'generating mapping', in lieu of removing and re-adding to the job.

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    Mohit Rampal 12,554 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: What is the proper way to perform a full push/refresh on all entities that are usually incremental push?

    Hi Chris,

    Please check this thread and test it first on data project with less than 10 data entities.

    community.dynamics.com/.../is-there-a-way-to-add-a-column-to-byod-of-azure-database-without-republishing-data-entity

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