[FPGA] Associate existing FPGA target with actual hardware?

I started writing some FPGA code and to support this I created a 'new' FPGA device- i.e. a device in the project but not associated with any real hardware.

A colleague now has access to some real hardware and is trying to run the code on it, but has resorted to creating another FPGA target from the existing (real hardware) FPGA device and copying the code hierarchy from the other 'virtual' device over to it. This also involved having to copy/recreate items such as FIFOs in the project hierarchy.

Is there an easier way to just associate the target we created in the first place with the real hardware?