Upgrading 4.5 templates to 5.5.2

rgriff

When upgrading templates and moving from a textarea with an rtf="t" attribute to an external-editor="VisualFormat" attribute, will there be any data loss in the existing DCRs created by this template? More specifically, is there a way to preserve data when migrating multiple items (i.e., text items and textarea with rtf attributes) into one textarea item with an external-editor="VisualFormat" attribute? Is this a manual process? Are there any Whitepapers, Tech Articles, etc. on upgrading templates?

Adam Stoller

I remember asking this question once and I believe the answer was there was no data loss when converting a textarea with rtf="t" to a textarea with external-editor="VisualFormat" - so I'm pretty sure you should be okay there.

text fields (as opposed to textareas) never supported the rtf="t" attribute - and do not support the external-editor attribute either - so there is no conversion there.

If you want to change your DCTs from having separate text fields and textareas to having a single textarea - that's a fundamental change to the DCT which would probably cause you problems. My guess is at the least, you will lose visibility of the data that was in the text field - you would probably lose the data itself when the DCR was next saved.

Please Note: I'm basing the above on a general knowledge and not a specific case experience - I could be wrong...

--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)