How to move one module from an app to another app

Frappe Framework App Development
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hi there,

i used to have multiple apps, but each of them has only one module, and later i realized that these modules can be just in one app, instead of multiple apps, i’ve migrated the code to one app, but now when testing with a clone db of our old setup, it complains that the app is no where to be found, and a bench migrate asks the old app to be present. any insights on this?

i do know that frappe hr was inside of erpnext, now that itself is a seperate app, i believe the process of splitting the app and also the merging of the apps should be somewhat identical

please let me know what am i missing :slight_smile:

Thanks.

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@nandato before taking the backup open module def and change the app name in each module you want to move . and after moving all files from your other app , uninstall them and remove them . then run migrate . then take the backup .

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@bahaou okay i’ve done the renaming in the Module Def table, but i’m not clear about the next steps, wouldn’t uninstall the app kill the data already stored in the doctypes?

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okay i think i got this, in case anyone else wants to do this too:

  1. move all modules to the desired apps
  2. edit the tabModule Def table, change app name of desired module
  3. if the app is no longer in use, edit tabDefault Value in defvalue for installed_apps defkey, remove the app that’s no longer being used
  4. run bench clear-cache to clear the redis cache
  5. run bench migrate, make sure the old app is not present during updating doctypes
  6. bench rm to remove app <app_name> to remove app in apps folder