After a short delay, Broadcom responded:
"[I]t's confirmed as a bug. It will tentatively [be] fixed in v12.0.10, v12.1.7, v12.2.5, [and] v12.3.2.
Currently there is no workaround for this issue."
The documentation should probably be updated to eliminate potential confusion about how the
keepFolderLinks
option is intended work, lest some eager developer be inspired to change the behavior again in a couple of years.
Existing:
If you replace the objects, activate Keep existing folder links if you want to preserve the object links as they were in the original system This means that links to objects from the Favorites list, Dashboards, etc. will work in the target system, you do not have to recreate them.
Proposed:
When replacing objects, use the Keep existing folder links option to preserve any existing object links as they are in the target system. This means that links to objects in Favorites, Dashboards, etc. will be preserved as-is in the target system, and you will not have to recreate them.
If an object is imported in a different folder than its existing home folder in the target system, the home folder will not be changed, but instead a link will be created in the target folder.
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