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About Migrating Siebel Web Template Data

Platforms: Windows, UNIX, and IBM z/OS.

As noted in Upgrading a Custom Database Schema, in Siebel Innovation Pack 2015 and later, the upgphys process executes a script that migrates data from Siebel Web template files into table-based content in the Siebel database.

The migrated Siebel Web template data is used by Siebel CRM Composer, which is available for preview purposes in the current release. For more information about Siebel CRM Composer and Siebel Web template migration, see Siebel CRM Composer Developer Preview Guide.

NOTE:  For Siebel Innovation Pack 2015, your existing deployment and usage of Siebel Web templates are unaffected by this migration.

Siebel Web template data is migrated only where a corresponding Siebel Web template (SWT) file is located in either the SIEBSRVR_ROOT/webtempl/ouiwebtempl/custom directory or the SIEBSRVR_ROOT/webtempl/custom directory. Before the migration, do the following in order to migrate data for all of the Siebel Web templates:

• Copy all Siebel Web template files located in SIEBSRVR_ROOT/webtempl/ouiwebtempl into SIEBSRVR_ROOT/webtempl/ouiwebtempl/custom.
• Copy all Siebel Web template files located in SIEBSRVR_ROOT/webtempl into SIEBSRVR_ROOT/webtempl/custom.

For each Siebel Web template, the migration script first looks for the corresponding Siebel Web template file in SIEBSRVR_ROOT/webtempl/ouiwebtempl/custom. If the file is not found in this directory, then the migration script looks for the file in SIEBSRVR_ROOT/webtempl/custom. When the migration script finds the Siebel Web template file, it parses the file and processes its data, and then moves on to the next Siebel Web template. If the Web template file does not exist in either of the required directories, then the migration script lists the file in the List of Missing Files section of the swt_mig.log file.

TIP:   Incremental Repository Merge takes longer to run than in previous releases, in part because of this migration step.

Optionally, you can run the Siebel Web template migration script manually after upgrading, as described in Siebel CRM Composer Developer Preview Guide. If you do so, then the migration script overwrites the previously generated table-based Siebel Web template data.

For a new Siebel database installation, the Siebel Repository now includes table-based data that was migrated from the default Siebel Web template files.

For general information about upgrade planning for Siebel Web templates, see Upgrade Planning for Siebel Web Template Files and Style Sheets.

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