Same package version to multiple phases

At large companies they many times use vitual environments. We also see extending application testing periods, for example more the 2 months.

To be able to test the new application version, we need to be able to deploy a Acceptance environment next to the Production environment.

To do so we want to use the acceptance phase in a package.
This will work when the version of the phase is different, but not when the version is the same.
We have this issue because of the following situation as an example:

• We create one deployment

• We adde 2 entitlements to the deployment

  • Context with all production devices set to the production phase

  • Context with all accaptance devices set to the acceptance phase.

• The deployment has (for exampe) 20 packages

• 19 packages did not change so all these packages are for example on version 10

• 1 package has production to version 10 and acceptance to version 11

For the 1 package which has a version 10 and 11, we can use the acceptance and production phases. For all the other packages we can only have one phase at the same time, so only production OR acceptance.

This means that when the 19 packages are set to production, we cannot use the deployment for acceptance. We we put the 19 packages to acceptance, we cannot use the deployment for the production. This meens we cannot create a virtual template (for Citrix/Omnissa/AVD) for the acceptance and production environment in the same time.

What we need is the possibility to set the same version to all phases. So version 10 should be able to set to Test, Acceptance and Production phases at the same time.
Preferrable that when we move for example from Acceptance to Production, that Acceptance will not get empty. It will always stay present, unless you click on the tashcan icon.

To sum up:
We can only use different phase in packages, when the phases are different versions.
We need to be able to set the same package version to all phases, not just different versions.

When moving from one phase to another, do not automatically make that phase empty but leave the version in place. When we want to empty the phase we can use the trashcan icon.