Upgrade projects coming forward from a prior release
Every time you install a new release of Corticon Studio, many Corticon development assets (Vocabularies, Rulesheets, Ruleflows, and Ruletests) might need to be upgraded for use in the Corticon Studio. These could be projects you were working on or samples you imported from another location. As you open each asset that needs to be upgraded, you are alerted as to the required action, and encouraged to proceed to upgrade it. The asset upgrade process will force the upgrade of dependent assets that also require a similar upgrade. This task can be tedious if you have a lot of assets and a lot of projects.
The project upgrade utility lets you choose projects or folders of projects that will be upgraded all in one pass. Typically, you would bring the projects into your workspace but you could choose to point to folders that contain projects.
Performing this procedure just after upgrading your Corticon Studio will relieve you of having to do this task as you work.
To upgrade a selected project:
1. After your Studio upgrade has succeeded, choose the Upgrade Rule Assets command, , on the dropdown menu that opens when you right-click on any project name in the Projects Explorer view. The Upgrade Corticon Assets dialog box opens, as shown:
In this example, the LifeInsurance project was selected so all the assets in that project are selected for upgrade.
2. Click Finish to start upgrade processing. You are alerted that this process cannot be undone, so consider whether you should cancel, backup the files as-is, and then run the same upgrade process again to completion.
3. After processing, the Update Results window opens, listing the assets that required upgrade and were upgraded, as well as those that did not require an upgrade, as shown:
You can choose to click Copy, and then paste the text into your preferred text editor.
4. Click OK to close the results window and the dialog box.
To upgrade one or more projects in one run:
1. Choose the Upgrade command, , on the dropdown menu that opens when you click Project on the Corticon menubar (or on the dropdown menu of a selected project in the Project Explorer tabs) The Upgrade Corticon Assets dialog box opens.
2. Click Browse to navigate to the branch of tree that could contain several Rule Projects, and click OK. The projects and their assets are listed in the Upgrade Corticon Assets dialog box, as in this example:
Note: For best performance, choose just several projects to upgrade in one run, and then perform as many runs as needed.
3. Click Finish to start upgrade processing. You are alerted that this process cannot be undone, so consider whether you should cancel, backup the files as-is, and then run the same upgrade process again to completion.
4. After processing, the Update Results window opens, listing the assets that required upgrade and were upgraded, as well as those that did not require an upgrade. You can choose to click Copy and then paste the text into your preferred text editor.
5. Click OK to close the results window and the dialog box.
, on the dropdown menu that opens when you right-click on any project name in the Projects Explorer view. The Upgrade Corticon Assets dialog box opens, as shown:
