How to Migrate OPA OIC Connectors from Test to Production Without Loosing Your Existing Mappings

If you work with Oracle Process Automation and integration flows, you’ve probably hit this wall: you migrate a process from your test environment to production.

Process Flow

I had an OPA process in the test environment with multiple integration flows, each using connectors that pointed to test-environment base URLs. After migrating the process to production, the connectors still referenced the old test URLs — and there was no obvious field to simply edit the base path directly.

Connector where there is no place change the base path

list of connectors in the OPA Process

After migrating from test to prod, the connector still points to the test environment URL.

My first instinct was to remove the existing connector and add a fresh production connector in its place. Sounds logical — but here’s the catch: When you remove a connector from an OPA flow and add a new one, every input and output assignment tied to that connector is wiped. You have to remap every field, in every step, manually. Depending on how complex your flow is, this can mean dozens of fields to reassign across multiple steps — an error-prone and time-consuming process.

Empty input/output mappings after removing & re-adding connector

The correct solution is to use the Update option on the existing connector. Here is how to do it step by step:

1)Open the connector panel in your OPA process

2)Click the “Update” option on the existing connector

After using the Update option, the connector’s base URL switches to production — and crucially, all your input/output mappings across every step remain intact. No remapping. No manual cleanup. Everything just works.

Before Update(Test): https://opa-connector.test.mycompany.com/integration/v1

After update (Prod): [https://opa-connector.mycompany.com/integration/v1](https://opa-connector.mycompany.com/integration/v1)

Key takeaway

When migrating OPA processes between environments, always use the Update option on an existing connector which is having OIC integration to change the base URL. Never remove and re-add a connector — you will lose all your field mappings.

This is one of those things that isn’t immediately obvious in the interface, but once you know it, it saves you significant rework during every environment promotion.