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| anuppc |
 Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 7:53 am Post subject: Migrating Work Items |
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We have some old work items which were based on a different Process Template- let us call it as Process A. Process A was modified to Process B subsequently. Process B has some similar elements (compared to Process A) and some additional elements in the datastructure. It also has additional activities and blocks...
How do we migrate existing work items (Process A) to Process B? Are there tools or guidelines to follow? Do we have to do it manually? Any suggestions or information about migration would be highly appreciated!!
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:14 am Post subject: |
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There is no approved way to do this.... It might be possible to write some code that would allow you to migrate in this way, but it would most likely be specific to the process template, and would probably not be very cost effective. Generally what would be done, is the existing models would complete using the old template and thus it would die a natural death.
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| There is no approved way to do this.... |
Is there any way at all? All I can think of is transferring them to new users.
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Ratan:
Given what I said about lack of flexibility, I believe it is entirely possible to a migration of Process Models that are extremely similar. You would have to kill the original and then kind of "play the tape forward" to the current point in the new model.
Like I said: doable, but probably not cost effective.
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Just a note and suggestion...if you expect your process models to change often then try to make use of subprocesses (late-binding) instead of a big monolithic process..This will cause your old business process (at some stage) start using the newly defined subprocess there by reducing the migration work.
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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creation of subprocesses does it have performance implications??
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Each subprocess costs you 3.9BWU. So yes there is a performance hit, but what manoj is suggesting is that you will trade off some performance for more flexibility in your models.
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You shouldn't be using subprocess unnecessorly...If you can substantiate it's usage then you should go for it
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