Structure of Retain XML

Following screenshot displays the structure of Retain XML:

Following is the description of the tags:

<Retain operation="retain">

This is the root tag that specifies the operation. No need to change anything within this tag. This tag has comment as a property name.

comment

This property contains the description of the operation you are performing.

<service>

This is the tag to be defined under <retain> tag. You need to define the type of activities (services) of the target environment that you want to retain during deployment of objects. This tag has the following properties: retainNewActivities, table, and field. 

retainNewActivites

This property contains the Boolean value - true or false. If the value of this property is true, new activities from the source environment will not be migrated to the target environment. If you don't specify this property then it will be treated as true.

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