XI Universe migration to V6.5.1

building semantic layer
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Is it possible to migrate a universe created in XIR2 Designer into 6.5.1 Designer?

I have a universe developed in XI, I’ve used a Shared connection and saved for all users, but get an error message when attempting to open the unv file in Designer 6.5.1

steerpike (BOB member since 2005-07-07)

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I am not surprised you can’t do this. Software (be it BOBJ or anything else) is seldom made backyards compatible. For example, once a report is saved in a higher version, you can’t go back to a previous version to edit it. Universes would work the same way.

SteveBickerton :canada: (BOB member since 2002-08-15)

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I suspect that if you open both versions of Designer (6.51 and XIr2) on the same machine you can copy and paste your Folders (and objects) over from 6.5.1 into XIr2 :smiley: .
Of course, you will have to ‘re-build’ your connection, import your table structure/s, and re-build your joins but this should be much faster to doing it from scratch. :wave:

Joe Szabo :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-19)

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This should work. But there is one problem with this approach - the customized LOVs are not copied over. So they need to be rebuilt in the destination universe.

Marek Chladny :slovakia: (BOB member since 2003-11-27)

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Good catch Marek :+1: . I suppose any context’s would have to be re-built as well :slight_smile:

Joe Szabo :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-19)