Using newer version of designer on older databased

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hey everyone,

general question:

Has anyone seen or had the opportunity to see any errors caused by editing v6 design elements with v7 designer client?

Anyone seen that in the past on the previous major version release changes?

Thanks for any feedback!!

Cheers,

Shawn

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Subject: Using newer version of designer on older databased

YES !!!

The ND7 Designer can cause shared actions in an ND6 database to go corrupt.

Be very careful.

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Subject: RE: Using newer version of designer on older databased

I had not heard anything like this related to R7.

The closest thing I remember was when an upgrade caused an ODS (on disk structure) change to the way that agents were saved. In that case, the new designer was saving features that the old designer couldn’t read. I do not think that it caused any corruption.

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Subject: RE: Using newer version of designer on older databased

Well, it happened to a colleague of mine and the shared actions were really messed up. Some appeared more than once and some not at all.

They were really corrupted as some couldn’t be saved (red screen of death) and some refused to open.

All in all, an experience I don’t wish anyone else to have to go through.

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Subject: I’ve seen random flakiness with this…

  • Things will be fine as frog hair for while, then one day the application will simply break in some random fashion. It will be completely impossible to repair it with the newer Designer. However, open the database using the correct Designer version and re-save all the design and it will again function correctly. No no edits, no changes of any kind. Simply rebuild the entire thing using the proper Designer.

  • I’ve seen this over and over and over, where others use a newer Designer to edit something, weeks to months later it fails, then I go in with the right Designer and rebuild it. It’s why I have Notes versions back to R5 installed and ready (and why R8.5 not playing nicely with older versions was such a horrid PITA). I always use the appropriate Designer version for the database I’m editing. Absolutely no exceptions ever for any reason.

  • Hope this helps…