DSXchange

I've taken a dsx export of a category from our development server. Later, the admin promoted this same category to production and created a dsx export of the category from the production server.

Oddly, the two dsx files are significantly out of sync. Attributes that appear in the production dsx export do not appear in the development dsx. However, when I import the production dsx file into a test environment, the jobs in designer appear to match those in development.

Any idea what's going on here?

Whats different? The system name might be different, along with some other environment variables. But the crux should be the same.

The differences appear to relate to additional attributes appearing within the data. For example, one subrecord that applies to an element of a transformer has 26 associated attributes defined in the development dsx, but 54 in the production dsx.

You sure your not appending to a file while doing exports. Either you or your production guy.

No appending is occurring. The problem is not that there are additional objects or jobs within the export. Instead, additional attributes are found within the subrecords of the objects.

Please post some specific examples so we can understand what you are seeing.

Is the development system on the same version as the production system? Exactly?

Were the Options settings in the Export dialog identical in both cases? For example, did the production export include defaulted properties and the development export not include them?