Merge pull request #8970 from Budibase/fix/7865

Fix for removing cron automations immediately after publishing

packages/server/src/api/controllers/deploy/index.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
 } from "../../../automations/utils"
 import { backups } from "@budibase/pro"
 import { AppBackupTrigger } from "@budibase/types"
+import sdk from "../../../sdk"
 
 // the max time we can wait for an invalidation to complete before considering it failed
 const MAX_PENDING_TIME_MS = 30 * 60000
@@ -86,6 +87,11 @@ async function initDeployedApp(prodAppId: any) {
   }
   await Promise.all(promises)
   console.log("Enabled cron triggers for deployed app..")
+  // sync the automations back to the dev DB - since there is now cron
+  // information attached
+  await sdk.applications.syncApp(dbCore.getDevAppID(prodAppId), {
+    automationOnly: true,
+  })
 }
 
 async function deployApp(deployment: any, userId: string) {

packages/server/src/sdk/app/applications/sync.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ import env from "../../../environment"
 import { db as dbCore, context } from "@budibase/backend-core"
 import sdk from "../../"
 
-export async function syncApp(appId: string) {
+export async function syncApp(
+  appId: string,
+  opts?: { automationOnly?: boolean }
+) {
   if (env.DISABLE_AUTO_PROD_APP_SYNC) {
     return {
       message:
@@ -33,7 +36,12 @@ export async function syncApp(appId: string) {
   })
   let error
   try {
-    await replication.replicate(replication.appReplicateOpts())
+    const replOpts = replication.appReplicateOpts()
+    if (opts?.automationOnly) {
+      replOpts.filter = (doc: any) =>
+        doc._id.startsWith(dbCore.DocumentType.AUTOMATION)
+    }
+    await replication.replicate(replOpts)
   } catch (err) {
     error = err
   } finally {