# Making changes to a live application? How do YOU manage this?

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**Category:** Knacksters' Idea Lab\
**Tags:** versions-sandbox\
**Created:** [December 14, 2021, 8:13am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/making-changes-to-a-live-application-how-do-you-manage-this/11718 "2021-12-14T08:13:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Calvin\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.knack.com/calvin_b/32/1897_2.png) [@Calvin\_B](https://forums.knack.com/u/Calvin_B)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/making-changes-to-a-live-application-how-do-you-manage-this/11718/3 "2021-12-14T22:29:25Z")

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> [@JulianKirkness](#):
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> To mitigate the risk of updating a live system, I generally make changes that are only visible to a Developer user role if possible - sometimes copying a page, changing it and then making it live and sometimes just using page and display rules to only show stuff under certain circumstances. To date, this has allowed us to run a pretty reliable system which now contains over 1,500,000 records.

Thanks for taking the time to reply Julian - I’m glad to know I am not the only one. Support also promptly got back to me and referenced a feature request that I ddid not find when searching ([Deploy changed objects/views to production - #10 by AndrewBart33971](https://forums.knack.com/t/deploy-changed-objects-views-to-production/9644/10)) , and I have upvoted it.

The ‘clone a page and make it only available to developers’ method, while not ideal, might be workable.

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