Conversion Frustrations

Scriptcase 8 Discussion
#1

I’m on Linux. My SC7.1 sits on a HP-Proliant microserver. For the time being SC8 is on my Ubuntu 14.04 notebook.

So I need to convert an SC7.1 project to SC8. Nice to see there’s a tool in the IDE to do that. If I can work it out, that is.

It asks me to provide the path to SC7, which is mounted in my home directory:

/home/user_me/proliant_www/scriptcase7/wwwroot/scriptcase/

I click NEXT and specify a different server for the conversion, i.e. my localhost. NEXT

Now, it is unclear what is expected here. If you ask me what is the server, it’s http://192.168.1.23. Or is it 192.168.1.23? Or maybe it’s http://192.168.1.23:98 or 192.168.1.23:98/scriptcase or??? you get the idea. I have tried all manner of permutations and everything gives a fatal error of one sort or another.

Note to SC devs; any chance on getting some clarity on what is expected, because I still haven’t gotten over the work we lost when moving from SC5 to SC7.

PS: The other frustration is that when the conversion fails, there is no “back” option to try again. After a warning that the page cannot be reloaded, the user has to go back to the SC login page. It’s just plain annoying.

Yours with love

#2

Choose same server, I’m not sure,but i think another server is to specify a remote database, for example, if you have SC database on mysql. If you have direct path to scriptcase folder you can specify same server

#3

It’s not looking for a web address so drop the http - its looking for a UNC of the folder your SC7 lives on so it can find the projects etc. Also - drop the port number - again not a web address - so something like:

{host / server name or ip}/home/user_me/proliant_www/scriptcase7/wwwroot/scriptcase/

That said, don’t know if it likes using an IP address at all - so may have to map it as a folder / drive / smb first