Rename Project

Hello folks.

I've been hitting my head against the wall and hope you all can help. I need to make copy of and then rename an existing v9 project. The problem is when I do this the Referenced Libraries fail to reference the namespace within those libraries. So everything bombs. I get "namespace name xxxxx could not be found (are you missing a using directive or assembly reference)." It seems as though the libraries are still reference to the old project name.

Is there some mapping XML file out there I should be manually changing?

Thanks

-lee

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Jerome_Pearce

What are you trying to rename? You mention renaming the project, but you refer to the library name changing. Are you renaming a library?

Note that if you do rename a library, or indeed a project, the namespace in server 'scripts' need to be updated. You know, that namespace just under that default comment that says "change this to a namepspace of your choice", and if you do change it, the whole thing falls apart. Or if you rename the librray / project, the whole thing falls apart.....

Lee Lee

Hello Jerome

Love your BPM forum. Been a great resource during my v6-v7 days. Thanks for that btw.

Ok. I'm trying to rename the project. The library stays the same. So I renamed the project name, project namespace, process map and the namespace within the server side script. Anything else I'm missing?

thanks

-lee

Jerome_Pearce

Thanks for that.

I am not sure how renaming the project would break references to the referenced libraries, I must say. I am not sure I've done that, but I may get a chance sometime today to have a go.

What type of things are you referencing in the library?

Lee Lee

That library contain a heck of a lot of stuff. MBO, server side scripts, form segments, etc. Let me know if you are successful.

thanks

Chris Addison

I have a very similar problem. I renamed a library (I had to unfortunately), changed the namespaces in scripts etc, republished the library and then removed the old library from the project and re-added the renamed one.

Having re-linked some form segments etc in the project I am unable to publish the project as it says "The type or namespace '[Old Library Name]' does not exist in the namespace 'Metastorm.Runtime.Models' (are you missing an assembly reference?).

I have done a text search across all of the files in the solution for the old Library name but I can't find anything that references it?

Any ideas?

Jerome_Pearce

I would suspect something in a Visual Script activity

Chris Addison

I finally solved this.

Using a text editor (TextPad) to search across all of the solution files I did find some references buried in some of the files in the Library so I updated these and republished the library, re-linked it to the project and it worked.

Jerome_Pearce

I had assumed from your previous entry that you had used a text editor, otherwise I would have suggested it. I am not sure how much Visual Script Activities mangle code in the XML, which is why I suggested taht.

Good that you found it, anyway!