Application statuses in environments | Zoho Creator Help

Application statuses in environments

What does this page cover?
Learn how environment statuses reflect the state of your application when adding or publishing it in environments. Before you proceed, ensure you have a clear understanding of environments and the process of adding and publishing applications within them.

1. Environment statuses

When adding or publishing applications in environments, you can track the progress through status messages specific to each state of the process. These statuses help you monitor deployments and quickly identify issues. They also ensure that your application and its dependencies are properly deployed across the environments.
Environment application statuses are grouped as: 
  1. Common statuses
  2. Statuses when adding an application to the environments
  3. Statuses when publishing an application in the environments

1.1. Common statuses

These are common statuses that are independent of the statuses in the process of adding or publishing applications to the environments. They appear on the respective environment cards for the application, as shown below.

Development environment
Status
Description
No changes available
The application has been successfully created in the development environment, and no modifications have been made after its creation, or all changes have already been published, and so there are no pending updates to publish. Only applications with changes can be published to the stage environment. Therefore, apps with this status cannot be published.
Changes available
The application in the development environment has been modified. Only applications with this status are eligible for publishing to the stage environment.
Locked
The application is being published to the stage environment and is locked from any modifications until the publish process is complete. Click here to learn more about the environment locking mechanism.

Stage environment
StatusDescription
Stage app not yet createdThis status indicates that the application has been added to the environment without automatically creating it in the development and stage environments. When this happens, app creation must be manually initiated.
Not yet publishedThe application was added to the environment during its creation and hasn't been published to the stage environment.

Production environment
StatusDescription
Not yet publishedThe application has been added to the environment during its creation and hasn't been published to the production environment.

1.2. Statuses when adding an application to the environment 

When an application is added to environments, it is deployed to both the development and stage environments along with its dependent applications. The apps will remain inaccessible in these environments until the main application and all its dependent apps are successfully created. If an error occurs in any of the apps during creation, it must be resolved, and the affected app must be redeployed in the respective environment. Until this process is complete, all dependent apps in the development and stage environments will remain locked, while the production environment stays accessible.
You can track the deployment progress through the status displayed on the respective development and stage environment cards for the application.

Development
Status 
Description
Development app not yet created
This status indicates that the application has been added to the environment but has not yet been created in the development and stage environments. In such cases, you must manually initiate app creation in the development environment.
Creating development app
The application is being created in the development environment and will be inaccessible during this process.
Waiting for dependent apps
The app has been created and is now waiting for all its dependent apps to be created (or) The app is currently queued for creation in the development environment.
Waiting for stage app creation
The app and its dependent apps (if any) have been created in the development environment, and it is now being created in the stage environment.
Development App creation complete
The app has been successfully created in both the development and stage environments. The version number will be displayed in the stage environment to indicate the published version.
Error in app creation - View Details
The app creation failed in the development environment. Refer to the details for resolution.
Dependent apps failed - View Details
This status appears in all dependent apps when the app creation of any dependent app fails in either the development or stage environment. Refer to the details for identifying the specific application and environment where this issue occurred. 

The specific app where the failure occurred in the development environment will display the following status: 'Error in app creation – View Details'.

Stage
Status
Description
Stage app not yet created
The app has been added to the environment without being automatically created in the development and stage environments. In this case, app creation must be manually initiated, or the app creation has failed in the development environment and has not been initiated in the stage environment yet.
Waiting for development app creation
The application is being created in the development environment.
Creating stage app
The app has been created in the development environment and is now being created in the stage environment.
Waiting for dependent apps
The app has been created and is now waiting for all its dependent apps to be created, or it is currently queued for creation in the stage environment.
Stage app not yet created – Error in app creation
The app creation has been failed in the stage environment. Refer to the details for resolution.
Dependent apps failed - Error in app creation
This status appears in all dependent apps when the app creation of any dependent app fails in either the development or stage environment. The specific app where the failure occurred in the stage environment will display the following status: 'Stage app not yet created – Error in app creation'

1.3. Statuses when publishing an application in the environments

When an application is published to an environment, Zoho Creator initiates a structured process to apply the latest changes to the stage or production environment. You can monitor the progress and outcome of the publish process by hovering over the icon displayed next to the version in the respective environment, as shown in the image below. 
These statuses help you understand whether the application is in queue, being published, completed, or if the process has been interrupted.

When an application is published to the stage environment, the development environment is locked to prevent any modifications during the publishing process. However, while publishing the application to the production environment, the development environment remains accessible. Click here to learn more about the environment locking mechanism.
The table below lists all statuses displayed during the application publishing process. 

Status
Description
V{0} is in publish queue
  1. The app and its components are being prepared for publishing and currently queued.
  2. This status may also appear when publishing multiple applications, including apps that do not have an initial version (V1.0) in the stage or production environment. In such cases, the environment version will be created for those apps first, while the others will remain in this state until the process is complete.
V{0} is in progress
(Maintenance Mode)
  1. The publish process has been initiated and is currently in progress.
  2. During this time, the app enters into maintenance mode to apply structural changes, such as schema or configuration updates, making it temporarily inaccessible to users in the target environment.
V{0} is in migration process

(Maintenance Mode / App Accessible)
Indicates that the app has been published and is undergoing data migration. During this stage, the existing data in the target environment is migrated to align with the new configuration like schema or configuration updates. The app may go through the following states during this process:
  1. Maintenance Mode: The app remains in maintenance mode from the publish process and is temporarily inaccessible to users in the target environment.
  2. App Accessible: In some cases, the app does not need to remain in maintenance mode during data migration. It becomes accessible to users while the migration continues in the background as part of the publish process.
    Example: For formula field updates, existing records are migrated to apply the new configuration. However, the app remains accessible during this time, even while the migration is in progress.

V{0} is published
The application has been successfully published to the target environment.
Error in Publish
An error occurred during the publish process. Click the status to view detailed error information.
Publish cancelled
This status appears when publishing multiple applications and an error occurs in one of the selected apps. As a result, the publish process for all other apps in the queue will be canceled before it begins.
Publish aborted
This status appears when multiple applications are published simultaneously and an error occurs during the publish process of any one of the selected applications. As a result, the publish process for all other applications will be aborted.
Publish changes reverted
This status appears when the publish process completes but encounters issues that trigger a rollback, restoring the environment to its previous stable state.
For example, If version V2.0 is currently live in production, and version V3.0 is published from stage to production, but an error occurs after publishing, the system will automatically roll back the production app from V3.0 to V2.0.
  1. Adding applications in the environment
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