Importing unmanaged solutions

Once you've exported a solution from your development sandbox environment, you can import the solution into other environments for testing and to deploy it to production. 

You can import a solution from the Maker portal. Select the target environment and then click on the Import button of the toolbar, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 20.13 – Importing a solution

Clicking on the Import button opens a new window:

Figure 20.14 – Choosing a solution package file

You should browse to your local computer and select the solution ZIP file you exported from your source environment before clicking on Next. This checks that the ZIP file is a valid solution file and whether it is managed or unmanaged. If it is unmanaged, you will see the following screen:

Figure 20.15 – Solution details

When you import an unmanaged solution, all the components in the solution file overwrite the components in the Default solution...