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Creating Contact Flows from files exported from a different account using AWS JS SDK v3, how can i update the values for instance specific values easily?

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Currently I have exported some contact flows and modules from a dev acc (as i need to test them here first) and I have them saved within a repo where they get uploaded to the test account (to continue my development process before then going to prod). Currently i am trying to create my automation system that will take these exported files int he s3 bucket and create the flows and modules using the API requests present within NodeJS 18.x JS SDK v3 using the commands.

Current issue is that I get back an issue that the resource within flow is invalid as it doesn't match the ARN in the current instance. If i was to do this via the GUI it will resolve this by looking for the resource with the same name instead of the ARN value.

Is there a way to get around this with the API commands or will this have to always be a manual task to import in the flows and modules? And will I have to update all the flows and modules so the ARNs are updated to the instance that is present?

Topics
ServerlessComputeApplication IntegrationBusiness Applications
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AWS LambdaAmazon Connect
Language
English
Jacob Boardman
asked 8 months ago210 views
1 Answer
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The recommendation here is to have some sort of "translation" table for all your resources referenced in the flow. You can replace all the new instance ARNs as you process the new flows.

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Magda
answered 8 months ago
  • Jacob Boardman
    8 months ago

    I'm not sure what you mean by this, as the ARNs that are within the JSON body of the exported file will have different account numbers, and specific UUIDs in them, i can't see how having a table with these will work if the instances end up being destroyed and having to get redeployed out again.

    I know that if you import one from one account instance e.g dev and then import it into a different account instance e.g. prod manually via the GUI it will let you know that it couldn't resolve it by ARN and resolved via the same name instead. Is this not a capability for the API request of CreateContactFlowCommand able to do?

    And if i had to have a DB for translating them how would I got about processing the massive JSON files and making sure i don't change the wrong values across the potential hundreds of flows and modules?

  • dmacias
    8 months ago

    How we've done it, which isn't great. You have a translation table of all your Lambdas. We have the naming convention env-LambdaName. When we export a flow, we run it through our translation table and we tell the system where we want to move the script to. We then get a new JSON file with the new ARNs based on the matching names.

    david

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