Copying Business Objects

[Bibby, David]

Hello,
We have a problem where we have a number of different workflows that are ba=
sed on the same Business Object.
 
Due to reasons outside of the development teams control, some workflow deve=
lopments based on this business object have been in our QA system for a few=
 months.
 
This has led to a situation whereby bugs found later on the same business o=
bject for other workflows in PRD have not been transported into production =
because the previous BO changes for new and existing workflows are not yet =
in production.
 
Transporting the bug fix could cause other workflows that have been changed=
 in DEV and QA, to fail in PRD because only the bug fix on the business obj=
ect would be transported to PRD and we can't transport the previous develop=
ments because the users are still deciding whether to sign them off for rel=
ease into PRD.
 
My workflow question is, what if anything can I do from a dev't point of vi=
ew to resolve this, or avoid it happening in the future ?
 
I had thought of taking a copy of the old business object and the new one, =
overwriting the new one with the old one, fixing the bug and transporting i=
nto PRD.
However I believe that would only copy the code and not the interface detai=
ls of each method. Would I be left with a corrupted BO in that the old code=
 would be there but with the new interface parameters of the method calls ?
 
Many Thanks=20
David
 
 
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