Reviving an old development from a Fat client on an other installation

[Zoltan_Gyimesi]

Hi JDEList,

I have on old development on our indoor system (UBE + BSVW + PO DSTR).
Our indoor system already does not exist, but my B7 folder do on my old Win 2000 fat client machine.
Here XE SP21.

This development is required on an other system: XE SP23.

I don't want (and do not like) to develop it from scratch (more days of development), so I plan to do the following:

- move the content of B7333\DV7333 folder from my Win 2000 FAT to a Win XP FAT in the other system to B7333\DV7333_XY
On the target FAT client:
- create the objects in OMW without spec (Log-Off)
- rename DV7333 temporarily to DV7333_ORIG
- rename DV7333_XY temporarily to DV7333 (Log-In)
- Check-In the objects in OMW (Log-Off)
- reverse the previous renaming and maybe delet DV7333_XY folder

My questions:
Q1.) May it work?
Q2.) Is there any risk to go wrong on the target living system?
Q3.) Any other advise, input?

Do not forget: I move this objects from SP21 to SP23.

Thanks in advance & Regards,

Zoltán

 

[barrier]

Zoltan,

Sounds like something I used to do. Check out post #43452

 

[klwong]

1) Yes, this works quite well. It's similar to the old "fake checkout" routine.
2) Since you are creating the object from scratch in the SP23 system, then no, there should be no risk to it.
3) The SP level makes no difference in the check-in/check-out mechanics, so there should be nothing else to worry about, except to make sure you check things in with the order they are dependent on, i.e. tables first, then BSVW, DSTR, then BSFN, etc.

 

[Zoltan_Gyimesi]

Hi Barry & Ken,

Thanks the replies to both of you.

I plan to play with entire DV7333 folder instead of DV7333\spec only.

Thanks again & Regards,

Zoltán

 

[Zoltan_Gyimesi]

FYI Ken, Barry & All of you on JDELIst,

I have done the job as I planned.
I "replaced" temporarily the whole DV7333 folder instead of its spec sub-folder.

Worked fine and it seems so, there were no conflict about, that the source and target SP levels were/are different.

I supposed, it will work, but thanks to Ken and Barry for the encouragement.

Regards,

Zoltán