Promoting the VB application
Promoting means to migrate the VB application from one instance to another. Promotion of the VB application is straightforward; you simply need to export the VB application from the source instance and import it in the target instance. When you export the application, an archive file is exported containing all the resources, such as web and mobile applications, Business Objects, and Service Connections. VB removes the external REST endpoint credentials from the Service Connection during export. When you import it onto the target instance, you have to reconfigure the Service Connection credentials.
The following diagram depicts the promoting process:
In the previous diagram, we considered three VB instances, namely, development (Dev), UAT, and production (Prod). On the development instance, the developers do the development, and once the development is over, the application will be exported...