Receiving and upgrading a project

Overview

Objecteering features a simplified project reception and upgrade procedure, thus ensuring backward compatibility and making Objecteering even easier to use.

If you wish to work on a project either created on a different user site and/or using an earlier version of Objecteering, you can launch the reception and/or upgrade procedures simply by:

· double-clicking on the project in question in the "Open" window (accessed through the "File/Open" command).

· double-clicking on the project in question in the Windows explorer.

Receiving a project

There are four possible project reception case scenarios:

· the reception of a project that is not known to your site, but that exists in the same version of Objecteering. In this case, you can choose to simply receive the project in question on your site.

· the reception of a project that is not known to your site, and that exists in an earlier version, for example, the 5.3 version of Objecteering. In this case, you can choose to receive the project in question on your site, and upgrade it from the previous version to the current version of Objecteering.

· the reception of a project that is not known to your site, but that has the same name as an existing database and that exists in the same version of Objecteering. In this case, you can choose to receive the project in question on your site and rename it.

· the reception of a project that is not known to your site, but that has the same name as an existing database and that exists in an earlier version, for example, the 5.3 version of Objecteering. In this case, you can choose to receive the project in question on your site, rename it and upgrade it from the previous version to the current version of Objecteering.

To receive a project, you should simply click on "File/Open" and select it in the "Open" window that appears. The reception procedure is then executed, and you can follow its progress in the output window.

This procedure can take a few minutes. Once completed, the project is opened ready for use.

Upgrading a project

To upgrade a project created in an earlier version of Objecteering, you should simply click on "File/Open" and select it in the "Open" window that appears. The migration procedure is then executed, and you can follow its progress in the output window.

This procedure can take a few minutes. Once completed, the project is opened ready for use.

Project migration and MDACs

When Objecteering projects are migrated from an earlier version of Objecteering, Objecteering will try to update each selected MDAC to its latest available version. Non-updated MDACs are removed from the project, and you are notified of this removal through a message in the output window.

Objecteering searches for the latest version of MDACs in the "mdastore" directory (for client-server installations, Objecteering looks for the latest version of MDACs in the "mdastore" directory on both the client workstation and the server), and scans each ".mdac" file, in order to extract the name and the version of the MDAC in question. Objecteering also looks for ".mdastorelink" files containing the name of a directory, in which ".mdac" files will also be searched for. The directory specified can also contain ".mdastorelink" links.

Once the scan of the "mdastore" directory has been completed, Objecteering selects the latest version of each MDAC deployed in the project and updates it.