Upgrade custom module

Sabrina_Giacomelli

Hi all,

I use Content Server 10 with custom modules.

I need to upgrade to Content Server 16, but I can’t find any guide about the procedure to upgrade custom modules.

Do you have any suggestion? Is there any documentation?

Thank you

Sabrina

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CS10 Is builder so in your custom module you will see things like.I have tried to explain the meaning of it as well.

If you look at the ini file of your module incidentally ,that is responsible for install and configuration.

Some advanced Oscript companies use better techniques,but they are applicable only to source code churners supporting for different versions,so

consider my method a poor man's method.

[dependencies]

requires_1={'kernel',10,0} //will need code from this module

requires_2={'webadmin',10,0} //will need code from this module

requires_3={'webwork',10,0} //will need code from this module

requires_4={'webnotify',10,0} //will need code from this module

requires_5={'formwf',10,0} //will need code from this module

[description]

moduleName=copwfx

Name=<Company Name>Workflow Extensions

Version=16.0 LL971FIRSTCUT 0

[install]

Url=func=copwfx.configure&module=copwfx&nextUrl=%1

[OSpaces]

ospace_1=copwfx

[APPU] //to help us remember what this does

#overrides,eventscripts

#{ 'WEBWORK','tgenericframe.html' },

#{ 'WEBWORK','taskgeneralpane.html' }

When I converted this module to CS10.5/CS16 what one does is

First create a new module and install in CS10.5/CS16 .This is just to know the kernel in them.You can just open a ini of a module

as well.Then I would change all the module numbers to CS16 so here's how it looks in my CS16 system.

[dependencies]

requires_1={'kernel',16,0}

requires_2={'webadmin',16,0}

requires_3={'webwork',16,0}

requires_4={'webnotify',16,0}

requires_5={'formwf',16,0}

[description]

moduleName=copwfx

Name=<Company Name> Workflow Extensions

Version=16.0 LL971FIRSTCUT 0

[install]

Url=func=copwfx.configure&module=copwfx&nextUrl=%1

[OSpaces]

ospace_1=copwfx

[APPU]

#overrides,eventscripts

#{ 'WEBWORK','tgenericframe.html' },

#{ 'WEBWORK','taskgeneralpane.html' }

PS1: If you have weblingo you will have to compile them as well.

Then I would install this module and see if CSIDE will compile it properly.In simple modules that are produced in the old code it will sometime be necessary to work through a ASCII file to remove old dependencies.In very simple cases like the module above I built the Oscript in that module got converted and started working again.

I have also been doing this conversion for about 3 years now converting and adjusting the code form old to new so there's so much frustration and fun that is going to happen.If your old module is a complicated one expect lots of tireless hours and poking into code.

Essentially most Oscript code is backwards compatible so you will not necessarily lose objects in the older version than the newer version.There are lots of exceptions for example when OT deprecated the use of TRIPLEDES They put out a developer note saying that please do this and that to use any code that used that,so pour over in the development /oscript areas and see how many have gone through your pains.For me it was not the code that is giving me grief it is all the functionality I seem to have lost with CSIDE.

Most module conversions I do take 20 minutes or less however I have spent close to 2 days converting some others.If you run into complicated situations we will try to help out with comments but do be prepared to pay for securing a third party or OT developers time as hobby replies will get you only this much.

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Well, if I called the wrongnumber, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 7:54 AM, eLink Entry: Content Server Development Forum <development@elinkkc.opentext.com> wrote:

Upgrade custom module Posted byGiacomelli, SabrinaOn 09/09/2016 08:51 AM

Hi all,I use Content Server 10 with custom modules.I need to upgrade to Content Server 16, but I can’t find any guide about the procedure to upgrade custom modules.Do you have any suggestion? Is there any documentation?Thank youSabrina
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Sabrina_Giacomelli

Thank you very much!

Quoted eLink on 09/09/2016 04:08 PM:

First a Disclaimer

//HUGE DISCLAIMER

//NOT PROD WORTHY CAUTION FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY

/*THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS''AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULARPURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SAMPLE CODE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.BY USING THIS CODE YOU AGREE TO THE ABOVE TERMS.*/

**************************************************************************************************************************************

CS10 Is builder so in your custom module you will see things like.I have tried to explain the meaning of it as well.

If you look at the ini file of your module incidentally ,that is responsible for install and configuration.

Some advanced Oscript companies use better techniques,but they are applicable only to source code churners supporting for different versions,so

consider my method a poor man's method.

[dependencies]

requires_1={'kernel',10,0} //will need code from this module

requires_2={'webadmin',10,0} //will need code from this module

requires_3={'webwork',10,0} //will need code from this module

requires_4={'webnotify',10,0} //will need code from this module

requires_5={'formwf',10,0} //will need code from this module

[description]

moduleName=copwfx

Name=<Company Name>Workflow Extensions

Version=16.0 LL971FIRSTCUT 0

[install]

Url=func=copwfx.configure&module=copwfx&nextUrl=%1

[OSpaces]

ospace_1=copwfx

[APPU] //to help us remember what this does

#overrides,eventscripts

#{ 'WEBWORK','tgenericframe.html' },

#{ 'WEBWORK','taskgeneralpane.html' }

When I converted this module to CS10.5/CS16 what one does is

First create a new module and install in CS10.5/CS16 .This is just to know the kernel in them.You can just open a ini of a module

as well.Then I would change all the module numbers to CS16 so here's how it looks in my CS16 system.

[dependencies]

requires_1={'kernel',16,0}

requires_2={'webadmin',16,0}

requires_3={'webwork',16,0}

requires_4={'webnotify',16,0}

requires_5={'formwf',16,0}

[description]

moduleName=copwfx

Name=<Company Name> Workflow Extensions

Version=16.0 LL971FIRSTCUT 0

[install]

Url=func=copwfx.configure&module=copwfx&nextUrl=%1

[OSpaces]

ospace_1=copwfx

[APPU]

#overrides,eventscripts

#{ 'WEBWORK','tgenericframe.html' },

#{ 'WEBWORK','taskgeneralpane.html' }

PS1: If you have weblingo you will have to compile them as well.

..... appnair appunair( Livelink Rocks )

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 7:54 AM, eLink Entry: Content Server Development Forum <development@elinkkc.opentext.com> wrote:

Upgrade custom module Posted by Giacomelli, Sabrina On 09/09/2016 08:51 AM

Hi all,

I use Content Server 10 with custom modules.

I need to upgrade to Content Server 16, but I can’t find any guide about the procedure to upgrade custom modules.

Do you have any suggestion? Is there any documentation?

Thank you

Sabrina

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