How can i keep changes made in the strapi permissions, and in view configurations(content-build

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System Information
  • Strapi Version: lts
  • Operating System: Windows
  • Database:
  • Node Version: lts
  • NPM Version: lts
  • Yarn Version: n/a

Hey guys, i’ve started to using strapi and it’s been a blast, but i ran into a problem:

  • how can i keep the view configuration of the content/content-builder when deploying the application?
    I filled a lot of things (labels, descriptions and so on) and after putting it into the dev environment everything is gone.

It may be a dumb question but who knows.
Thanks!

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Sadly no solution - I’d just like to bump this. I also would like to have these settings to be saved in my repository. I’m afraid they are “loked away” in the database?

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For example in this view, I’ve added descriptions to many fields. But they don’t appear in my git changes :frowning:

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Hey - so I found this:

So yes they are in the database - and you have to restore them in each environment, but the links are broken. I found the correcsponding docs though:

Weirdly, npm run strapi config:dump -f configdump.json did not work for me (neither with absolute paths). So I had to use npm run strapi config:dump > configdump.json. This just dumps the whole consoleLog in a file, so I had to manually remove the first part and use an Unescape-Json tool to create a valid json… not optimal.

Update - after installing strapi globally, it worked with -f
strapi configuration:dump -f ./config-dump.json

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As a suggestion - if any developer reads this: Why not make it configurable which settings are stored in the DB and which are stored in subfolders (which are managable by git). This way changing a view or fiel-description could much more easily be synchronized between stages. I’ll perhaps do a proper proposal once I understand strapi better.

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Yeah, I’ve searched for it inside the code and found nothing too. :slightly_frowning_face:

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Firstly, thanks so much for your effort in helping out with this Simon!
I tried these commands before but they didn’t work too, I’m going to try to install strapi globally and dump the configurations again.

And I agree, we should definitely have some sort of option/configuration to keep it or choose it’s destination.

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Hey @SimonS, I’ve just found a plugin that kinda solves my problem:

It keeps the changes using files tracked by git, under the admin folder.
After installing it and rebuilding the strapi, you gonna have a section inside the Configuration menu where you can see the differences in the actual configuration and the incoming one, like a git diff.

Hope it helps!
Thanks!

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