Hi all
Our organisation has recently moved from an R5 infrastructure to an R7 infrastructure, but not via 6.5. Basically we bought new servers, installed R7, created a new domain and created new replicas of all our R5 databases. This was the path recommended by IBM.
I won’t go into the catalogue of major issues that this created (yes, thanks IBM!), but there is one in particular that somebody here maybe able to help with.
A large number of ‘doc cabinet’ type applications in our R5 environment had images and URLs pasted into their rich text fields. After replicating to R7 I’ve noticed that all of these are still pointing to the R5 servers explicitly. There also doesn’t seem to be a way of programmatically accessing this url information to update it. This has basically rendered about 400 databases completely useless.
To be a bit clearer, if you were to ‘right-click’ an image in the browser you would see that its properties would be a url on the old servers. I can’t see any way of changing this (I have examined all the field properties via the debugger). Same with pasted URLs.
Anyone offer any solutions ? Is there some way of making the ‘redirect’ documents in the NAB cope with this ? I have tried adding URL-Redirected URL mappings to the NAB to no avail.
Thanks
Martyn