Conflict with custom types in 2 different DARs

I'm deploying a DAR file (DAR1) for a Taskspace application; this application uses some custom types that are defined in another DAR file (DAR2).

But these custom types are present in both DARs since you need to add the types you use in our Taskspace application.

So now, I need to update one of the custom types: with Composer I changed it in the DAR2 and then install that DAR2 file to production server.

Some time later, I need to make some changes in the Taskspace application; I regenerate my DAR1 file and install it on the production server.

And of course the updates on my custom type diseappears.

Is there a smart way to avoid having my custom types in both DAR files?

Or do I have to regenerate DAR1 when I update DAR2?

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DCTM_Guru

1) I'm not asking you to take them out, you just need to refresh the type for DAR1

2) Not necessarily. If you not planning to update object type in DAR1, you can configure the artifact to NOT overwrite to target repository.

If you are going to be making changes to object types in both applications AND they share the same object types, then you will have to regenerate the DAR files for each application.

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DCTM_Guru

Prior to regenerating DAR1, delete your type artifact and reimport it in. This will retrieve your updated type definitions that are stored in DAR2.

Now DAR1 will have the same type info as DAR2 and there will be no conflict.

Chris31

So I understand that:

- there is no way to avoid having my custom types in both DAR files

- each time I update my custom types, I need to regenerate my Taskspace application DAR file.

DCTM_Guru

1) I'm not asking you to take them out, you just need to refresh the type for DAR1

2) Not necessarily. If you not planning to update object type in DAR1, you can configure the artifact to NOT overwrite to target repository.

If you are going to be making changes to object types in both applications AND they share the same object types, then you will have to regenerate the DAR files for each application.