Guide to APEX Working Copies & Merging
1. Introduction: Why Working Copies? Start with the "Why." Before this feature, developers often exported/imported applications with different IDs or—worse—edited the same page at the same time. The Problem: Merge conflicts, overwritten code, and "Development Freezes." The Solution: Working Copies allow for isolated development environments within the same Application ID. In Oracle APEX, this is handled through two actions: Merge into Main Refresh Working Copy How to Merge Steps: Open your Working Copy. Click on the Working Copy menu. Select Merge into Main. Review the list of changed components. Confirm merge. You will see: Changed components Newly added components Deleted components This is where you must be careful. Selecting Impacted or Changed Components The merge screen does not force you to merge everything. ...