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import forms 10 to forms 9

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Updated April 7, 2019

asked on April 22, 2016 • Show version history

I have a form designed on forms 10.0 and exported. when importing into forms 9.1 I get and error below. is there a way to overcome this without having to upgrade to forms 10.0. if the answer is "NO", is forms 10 compatible with server 9.1?

URL: /Forms/handlers/BusinessProcessImporter.ashx

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

IP Address: 10.26.0.22

Message: Reading the xml file returned error - There was an error deserializing the object of type Laserfiche.Forms.Api.DataContract.BusinessProcess. The value 'USD' cannot be parsed as the type 'Int32'..

Stack trace: at E_Forms.Handlers.BusinessProcessImporter.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)

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replied on April 22, 2016

I would imagine you are receiving this error because the export from Forms 10 probably includes changes or additional code in the XML that Forms 9 does not know how to handle.

To answer your question about if Forms 10 is compatible with LF Server 9.1, yes according to the help documentation.

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replied on April 22, 2016

It would take a little bit of effort but you could export a version 9.1 form and a similar form exported from a version 10 system. Take both xml files and run them through an XML parser/comparer utility to see what the differences are. Once you see the differences then the xml files can be edited manually with any XML editor to make them backwards compatible. Although possible it might not be worth the effort?

From a developers standpoint do you think there would be any value to a stand-alone utility that would take a version 10 form and 'convert' it to an earlier version of Forms?

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replied on April 24, 2016

Forms only support import exported xml from lower version to higher version, does not support import exported xml from higher version to lower version.

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replied on April 7, 2019

FEATURE REQUEST

Would it be possible to have an export tool that allows you to choose the version you want to export to?

Reason: More and more we find ourseves doing Forms dev in our environment and exporting to the client's environment. Often we're in a newer version than they are, so being able to export process as XML from say 10.3.1/10.4 to 10.2 or 10.1 would be useful.

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