Organizations typically plan, test, and deploy new integrations with a recipe development lifecycle. This may involve moving recipes from a development environment to a testing environment, or from a testing environment to a production/deployment environment.

Recipe lifecycle management (RLCM) is one of the features that enables teams to collaborate concurrently in a planned and controlled recipe development effort. This tool allows the export and imports of packages which contain recipes and their dependencies (lookup tables, message templates, and more). This allows teams to maintain their integration recipes across their different teams’ environments.

Packages

Users can export and import their recipes as packages. RLCM supports exporting the following assets in a package:

• Recipes in a chosen folder
• Sub-folders and recipes in those sub-folders
• Associated connections
• Associated custom connectors (SDK connectors)
• Associated recipe functions or callable recipes (deprecated)
• Associated lookup tables
• Associated shared schemas
• Associated message templates
• Associated environment properties
• Associated common data models
• Associated API endpoints
• Associated API collections
• Associated Event topics
• Associated Workflow app configuration
• Associated data tables
• Associated test cases

Importing and exporting packages is useful when teams are collaborating across different Workato workspaces. For example, the development team can use RLCM to move recipes over to the QA team’s workspace, or to the production team’s workspace. Consultants can also utilize this feature to move comprehensive integrations into their client’s workspaces.

Step by step guide to create a manifest in workato:

Step 1. Go to the below link:

https://docs.workato.com/

step 2: Login into your account using Email and password

Step 3: Click on Tools and select Recipe life cycle management

Step 4: Now choose Export and click on the new manifest as shown in fig.

Step 5: Name the manifest and choose the source folder of which you want to manifest.

Step 6. Now click on the next button as shown in fig.

Step 7: If you want to exclude any folder, recipe, connection or any dependency then you can exclude that, after click on the create manifest button as shown in fig.

Step 8: If you want to edit the manifest then you can click on the Edit manifest button else click on the Build and export package button as shown in fig.

Step 9. After creating the manifest, you can download the zip file of your manifest.

In this way you can create the manifest in workato.

With the right approach, managing recipes becomes faster, cleaner, and more reliable. If you’re ready to streamline your automation journey. Connect with TGH’s Workato experts and elevate your integration lifecycle today.