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[SHARING] What are the advantages of moving to WF 8 ?

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August 29, 2013, 10:39 AM
MAdams1
[SHARING] What are the advantages of moving to WF 8 ?
@Francis However ours are not in MR so the MR migration doesn't apply to us. We copied our files to WF 8 and they are not working Frowner


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August 29, 2013, 02:36 PM
Doug
MattC, Do you have anything on what these items are? If so, and if you would pass them on, it would be a great help for those of us who will be following-suit, instead of the old trial-by-fire method...
quote:
"code tightening
Smiler




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August 29, 2013, 03:06 PM
MAdams1
quote:
IBI has now documented the process on how to cleanly modernize your structure.


@MattC could you tell me where this documentation is please and thank you.


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August 30, 2013, 07:17 AM
David Glick
Doug,

The conversion cannot be automated at this time. Why do you want to convert all your pages? They should run as is and if you open any to modify them, those will be converted.


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August 30, 2013, 08:05 AM
MattC
quote:
Originally posted by Doug:
MattC, Do you have anything on what these items are? If so, and if you would pass them on, it would be a great help for those of us who will be following-suit, instead of the old trial-by-fire method...
quote:
"code tightening
Smiler


It wasn't a whole lot of changes. We found it as we were doing regression testing of our reports. In some of my HTML Composed pages I did have to modify some JavaScript.


A note from the manual itself

"Although the HTML Composer is fully integrated with JavaScript, it is suggested that you do not create custom JavaScript that manipulates the HTML Composer generated controls, as WebFOCUS cannot support such custom JavaScript code. Additionally, there is no guarantee that the JavaScript code will work correctly in future releases. "


WebFOCUS 8.1.05
August 30, 2013, 08:14 AM
MattC
quote:
Originally posted by MAdams1:
quote:
IBI has now documented the process on how to cleanly modernize your structure.


@MattC could you tell me where this documentation is please and thank you.


That's the question of the day. I don't see the documentation out there in the technical library, but I could have missed it. IBI presented this year on the process. There is another post about this.

Before you do any "modernization" I would contact techsupport.


WebFOCUS 8.1.05
May 05, 2014, 06:00 AM
SWES
quote:
Originally posted by MattC:
quote:
Originally posted by MAdams1:
quote:
IBI has now documented the process on how to cleanly modernize your structure.


@MattC could you tell me where this documentation is please and thank you.


That's the question of the day. I don't see the documentation out there in the technical library, but I could have missed it. IBI presented this year on the process. There is another post about this.

Before you do any "modernization" I would contact techsupport.


Hello, meanwhile has anyone found the documentation? Could this be provided to the forum?

Thanks,

SWES


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May 05, 2014, 07:34 AM
MattC
Here you go

http://infocenter.informationb...s.com/wf80/index.jsp


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