> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How to promote content

> Copy charts and dashboards from a development or preview project into production

## How promoting works

If you are promoting a chart, from a `development` project to a `production` project, this will happen:

* If the chart exists in both the `development` project and the `production` project, the chart in `production` will be updated with the changes from `development`. You can always revert this chart to a previous version using [version history](/explore/version-history). Lightdash matches charts based on the name used when you first created them. Even if you change the names later, the two charts will still be linked.
* If the chart is new, we will replicate the `development` chart into the `production` project. We will also create a new space if a space does not exist with the same name.

## Configure upstream project

Before you can start promoting content, you need to configure your upstream project. To do this, on your `development` project go to settings > Data ops.

Select the project where you want to copy the content to.

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## Promote charts

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  **You must be a `developer` and have access to the chart and space in both the `development project` and the `upstream project`.**

  If the chart is in a space that doesn't exist in the `upstream project`, then this space will be created with the same user access and the content will be put in this space. If the chart is in a space that exists in the `upstream project`, the access to this space will not be updated.
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You can promote charts from the `chart` in view mode or from any listing (like home page or all charts), click on the `...` button and then select `promote chart`.

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Once the chart is promoted, you can click on the `success` banner to open a new tab into this chart in the `production project`

## Promote dashboards

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  **You must be a `developer` and have access to the dashboard and space in both the `development project` and the `upstream project` as well as have access to all the charts in the dashboard.**

  If the dashboard is in a space that doesn't exist in the `upstream project`, then this space will be created with the same user access and the content will be put in this space. If the dashboard is in a space that exists in the `upstream project`, the access to this space will not be updated.
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You can promote dashboards from the `dashboard` in view mode or from any listing (like home page or all dashboards), click on the `...` button and then select `promote dashboard`.

This will promote the dashboard to the `upstream` project as well as all the charts in this dashboard (for both charts within spaces and charts within this dashboard), any embedded [data app](/data-apps) tiles, and all other non-chart tiles like markdown.

If the dashboard, charts or data apps are in a space that doesn't exist in the upstream project, then these spaces will be created and the content will be put in these spaces.

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Once the dashboard is promoted, you can click on the `success` banner to open a new tab into this dashboard in the `production project`.

## Promote data apps

You can also promote data apps from a preview project into their upstream project. See [Promoting an app](/data-apps#promoting-an-app) in the data apps guide for details.