UnifAce 10 and how to duplicate a model

Hi Freaks

We have to migrate to Uniface 10 as UnifAce 9 is out of support end of this year.
Okay, we will still develop in UF 9 and upgrade our components to UF 10 only for the purpose to deploy the application 🙂
But there a few things to modfy so our compnents will run under UF 10
One of this is that we are using a few tables from DICT to get meta information at runtime .
Thist will not longer work by default, as the entities are modified

So I want to duplicate DICT to APP_DICT with the old definitions.
And curious how I am, I tried to duplicate under UF 10.

But how to do so?
Where can I duplicate a whole model, what's under UF 9 an easy task?

Regrads Ingo

Hi Freaks

We have to migrate to Uniface 10 as UnifAce 9 is out of support end of this year.
Okay, we will still develop in UF 9 and upgrade our components to UF 10 only for the purpose to deploy the application 🙂
But there a few things to modfy so our compnents will run under UF 10
One of this is that we are using a few tables from DICT to get meta information at runtime .
Thist will not longer work by default, as the entities are modified

So I want to duplicate DICT to APP_DICT with the old definitions.
And curious how I am, I tried to duplicate under UF 10.

But how to do so?
Where can I duplicate a whole model, what's under UF 9 an easy task?

Regrads Ingo

Hi Peter

A view could be a solution, if we only us DICT for our runtime/deployed environment.
But for working with DICT (searching, modifying,...) we need the UnifAce-version of DICT
So the best way is to create a new model DICT_application with the old definition from UF 9
So I did a copy of the model in UF9  and move (export/import) it into UF 10

But if I have a close look into UF10, just to check how to do such a task in UF10, I did not find a possiblity to duplicate a model under UF10
And that's my question: How to duplicate a model in UF10 ?

Ingo

Hi Peter

A view could be a solution, if we only us DICT for our runtime/deployed environment.
But for working with DICT (searching, modifying,...) we need the UnifAce-version of DICT
So the best way is to create a new model DICT_application with the old definition from UF 9
So I did a copy of the model in UF9  and move (export/import) it into UF 10

But if I have a close look into UF10, just to check how to do such a task in UF10, I did not find a possiblity to duplicate a model under UF10
And that's my question: How to duplicate a model in UF10 ?

Ingo

"To answer the question. You can duplicate an entity and change the model name."

Replace "an entity" by "all entites of a model" and you got the tasks to do 🙂

All together now! Sing:
Where have all the features gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the features gone?
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Where have all the features gone?

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That would definitely be my preferred method... At least you can see what you are getting.

I had a quick look and for the entities it seems quite easy with only 2 searches necessary
    <DAT name="U_RVLAB">MYMODEL</DAT>
    <DAT name="U_VLAB">MYMODEL</DAT>
...not including model level source code...
    
However, many other xml's need to be considered too... components, snipets, maybe even menus etc etc etc

Nevertheless, it should be quite easy.

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Osman Shariff
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