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Migrating widgets (post-product migration)

After migrating your product to V8.0.1, you must perform some additional tasks for the Business Space component before you start your servers or clusters and use Process Portal.

Before you start this task, you must have migrated your product server or cluster and verified that the migration was successful.

You also must have migrated the Business Space database. Follow the instructions for migrating databases and data.

If you are migrating from an earlier version of your product and you have the Business Space component configured after migration before you can use Process Portal.


Procedure

  1. If you had custom widgets in a previous release, complete manual steps to make the widgets operational in IBM BPM V8.0.1. See Migrating custom widgets.

    Tip: The V7.0 data migration assists in migrating the widget catalog and endpoint of your custom widgets, so you do not need to manually migrate them again.

  2. If you had an environment in the previous release with the Business Space component running on a different cell than the Representational State Transfer (REST) services, or with widgets on different cells than Business Space, you must update the endpoints files. See Enabling widgets for cross-cell environments.

  3. If you used IBM Forms Server in your environment with Human Task Management widgets in a previous release, complete manual steps to get Business Space working with IBM Forms Server V4.0 and the Webform Server component.

    1. Install IBM Forms Server V4.0.

    2. In the administrative console for your product, update the following environment variables:

      • Change the 76 API references to 80, for example: ${LFS_API_DIR};${LFS_API_DIR}/80/system;
      • Change the value of the LFS_DIR variable to be the path of the IBM Forms Server installation, for example: c:\Program Files\IBM Forms Server\4.0\WebformServer.

      See Configure IBM Forms Server for Human Task Management widgets in Business Space.

  4. If you had exported spaces or templates from your previous Business Space environment, import them into IBM BPM V8.0.1 so that they are available to use.

    If you migrated from version 6.x, for templates, first import them as spaces in the Space Manager, then convert the imported spaces to templates by clicking Actions > Save as Template.


Results

After you complete these migration procedures, you can use IBM BPM V8.0.1 and Process Portal.

If you have used IBM BPM V6.2, you must clear your browser cache before using IBM BPM V8.0.1. This will help you avoid inadvertent, continued use of code and images from IBM BPM V6.2.

Postmigration tasks