Migrate Management views

To migrate Management views from a PPM 5 installation to PPM 9.9, please proceed as follows.

Procedure

  1. Identify the directories in which the Management views of the client of the PPM 5 installation are stored. To do so, open the file Templates_settings.properties in the directory <PPM5_HOME>/config/<client> and find the setting ManagementViews2.BaseDirectory.
  2. Switch to the directory you identified and copy the Management views (.html files) to be transferred to PPM 9.9 to the clipboard. Also, if applicable, copy the files of the same name with the extension _conf.xml.
  3. Now, change to the base Management view directory of the client of the PPM 9.9 installation <PPM99_DATA>\webapp\WEB-INF\config\<client>\managementviews
    and paste the files you had copied to the clipboard.
  4. Then adapt the settings in the configuration files (_conf.xml). The value for the corbaurl setting must contain the URL of the Corba registry of the PPM 9.9 installation, which is located in the file <PPM99_DATA>\config\Registry_settings.properties under the key CorbaServerURL. If the PPM 5 installation was run using the internal PPM user management and the value of the password box is encrypted, the original password must be reencrypted.
    1. The runpassencryptor.bat program is available for password encryption. Open a command prompt in the <PPM99_CLIENT_RUN>/bin directory. Call the following command.

      runpassencryptor.bat -mode ppm -password <PASSWORD_UNENCRYPTED> –umc

      The program outputs the encrypted password.

    2. Enter the encrypted password in the relevant _conf.xml file in the following format:

      #*+PASSWORD_ENCRYPTED+*#

  5. Then, identify the directory in which the graphics files of the client of the PPM 5 installation are stored. To do so, open the file Templates_settings.properties in the directory <PPM5_HOME>/config/<client> and find the setting ManagementViews2.FileBitmapBaseDirectory.
  6. Then, identify the directory in which the graphics files of the client of the PPM 9.9 installation are stored. To do so, open the file Templates_settings.properties in the directory <PPM99_DATA>/config/<client> and find the setting ManagementViews2.FileBitmapBaseDirectory.
  7. Copy the content from the graphics base directory of the client of the PPM 5 installation to the graphics base directory of the client of the PPM 9 installation.