MIGRATING ARCHIVING FROM UNFORM 7/8 TO UNFORM 10.1

UnForm 10 and Unform 9 share the library format, so there is no conversion required for UnForm 9.0 libraries to be migrated to an UnForm 10.1 installation.  However, only 10.1 is capable of maintaining DocData values, so if records are updated from within Unform 9.0, data stored by UnForm 10 may be lost.  For this reason, sites that use the UnForm 10 Image Manager or DocFlow modules, which rely heavily on DocData values, should not share libraries between the two versions.

UnForm 10.1 uses a different library format from versions previous to UnForm 9.0.  Older libraries must be converted for use with the 10.1 system using an importing process.  This conversion can be done "in place", where both 10.1 and previous versions share the same library directory.  The two versions of libraries use different file naming conventions, so there is no conflict and both can reside in the same physical directory, though space usage will be approximately doubled

You can also import into a new directory, or to a new machine by first copying old libraries to some location on that new machine.  Both old and new library directories must be available to the UnForm server.