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What is an External Instance?

An External Instance was another Nodinite environment that an Export could send items to directly. External Instances are not available in Nodinite 7, because Import / Export, their only consumer, stays out of 7.x.

Up to Nodinite 6

Up to Nodinite 6, an External Instance stored a name, a description, and the URI of the target instance's Web API. Exporting Repository Model items to it skipped the file step: the items arrived as an import module on the target, ready to Import.

What to Use Instead

There's no built-in tool to copy configuration between Nodinite environments in 7.x. Read Import / Export for the details.

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