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Database Conversion Scenarios

Introduction

Exact Synergy Enterprise is constantly updated with new functionalities to support your businesses. Some of these new features required different database structure and usage. Before you can make use of the latest features, you need to execute the database conversion to ensure that your Exact Synergy Enterprise is running smoothly.

This document provides you with the process flow for the above-mentioned conversion scenarios. It also provides links to the relevant step by step guides for executing the conversions. The conversion is required for the following:

  • The structure and usage of Exact Synergy Enterprise is different from Exact Synergy or Exact Macola ES, hence a data conversion is necessary.
  • Converts the database to be Unicode-compliant and the data into Unicode format.

Description

You can run the conversion of databases at different points in time. However, each process has different pre-requisites before it can be run. The following flow chart represents the many possible steps taken in converting databases:

 

The following table lists the processes and the corresponding pre-requisites:

Process For more information Prerequisite Result
Migrating from Exact Synergy to Exact Synergy Enterprise version 242 onwards.

1.    Install Exact Synergy Enterprise from version 242 onwards. For more information, see Exact Synergy Enterprise: Installation Manual.

2.    Run the database conversion tool to convert the database to the structure of Exact Synergy Enterprise and Unicode-compliant. For more information, see Exact Synergy Enterprise: Database Conversion Manual.

Exact Synergy version 394. Database is migrated to Exact Synergy Enterprise and Unicode-compliant.
Migrating from Exact Macola ES to Exact Synergy Enterprise version 242 onwards.

1.    Install Exact Synergy Enterprise from version 242 onwards. For more information, see Exact Synergy Enterprise: Installation Manual.

2.    Run the database conversion tool to convert the database to the structure of Exact Synergy Enterprise and Unicode-compliant. For more information, see Exact Synergy Enterprise: Database Conversion Manual.

Exact Macola ES version 9.5 onwards. Database is migrated to Exact Synergy Enterprise and Unicode-compliant.
Converting existing Exact Synergy Enterprise to version 242 onwards to be Unicode-compliant. Run the database conversion tool to convert the database to Unicode-compliant. For more information, see Exact Synergy Enterprise: Database Conversion Manual. Exact Synergy Enterprise version 230 or earlier. Database is Unicode-compliant.
Migrating document structure from categories to types. Run the database conversion tool to migrate document structure from categories to types. For more information, see How-to: Migrating Document Type Management Structure. Exact Synergy Enterprise version 242 onwards. Document structure is in Standard mode.

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