Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

padmanabhanv — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:21:57 GMT

Thanks a lot ; that was what I was looking for

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

Eduardo Fuentes — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 06:22:02 GMT

The namespace is defined in the XSD and that is the one which has preference over any setting.

The conf.data.type.designer.namespace is just for those data types you create from the UI.

Once a model points to {namespace_1}MY_CDT even if you delete and reimport a CDT with a different qualified name the model will still reference {namespace_1}MY_CDT because the model is independent from the CDT changes that's why Impact Analysis was created but that works only if the CDT is the "same" which means same namespace same name.

Any changes in namespace not planned beforehand will require you to remap your models.

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

padmanabhanv — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 06:10:46 GMT

Yes, got that, thanks - my question is " If I change the default namespace in the server, restart and then import this CDT back again, would it derive the system defined namespace or would it still retain the old one"

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

Eduardo Fuentes — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 06:03:25 GMT

Correct forum.appian.com/.../Data_Type_Designer that is the property and goes in custom.properties.

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

padmanabhanv — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 06:00:43 GMT

In my exported app, one of the CDT's has a namespace of localhost:8080/.../. If I change the default namespace in the server, restart and then import this CDT back again, would it derive the system defined namespace or would it still retain the old one(localhost:8080/.../types) Please help

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

padmanabhanv — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:53:26 GMT

guess it is this - conf.data.type.designer.namespace

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

padmanabhanv — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:51:24 GMT

How do I change the default namespace setting for the datatypes so that they change from localhost:8080/.../types to a urn

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

padmanabhanv — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:44:12 GMT

ok, so if I have to change the namespace then what do I do? Remap all the components again?

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

Eduardo Fuentes — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:28:44 GMT

Yes, that's the root cause. CDTs are identified by two things:

name + namespace

if you change any of those two things then the CDT is considered a different data type which means Impact Analysis will not be able to guess you mean those new ones to be the same as the old one if their qualified name is different.

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

Eduardo Fuentes — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:27:32 GMT

1. Did you change the namespace when you re-imported the XSD?
2. Go to the Applications tab and select one of the applications that have a model with the CDT in question, open the application, click on the Process Model and open it. How does the CDT look like? does the CDT type has a ^ such as MY_CDT^1?

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

padmanabhanv — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:26:36 GMT

I changed the namespace in the XSD, would that be the reason?

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

padmanabhanv — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:24:04 GMT

Models are part of the application

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

Eduardo Fuentes — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:21:12 GMT

Just remember that for this to work your impacted models need to be part of an application in the Applications list. If the models that reference the CDTs are not part of any application under the Applications tab you will get the "No applications contain references to the data types"

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

padmanabhanv — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:15:49 GMT

Well in my case, I deleted all the CDT's eg( Person, Accounts, Address) and recreated it by importing an XSD file. However when I do "Impact Analysis" for the 3 CDT's, I see "No applications contain references to the data types "

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

Eduardo Fuentes — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:43:40 GMT

I meant: "so you don't lose the unpublished changes since the impact analysis publishes the models at the end of the update"

RE: Hello, What is the easiest way to edit an existing field in a CDT? I have a coup

Eduardo Fuentes — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:43:13 GMT

Take a look at forum.appian.com/.../Data_Type_Impact_Analysis

Just remember that for this to work your impacted models need to be part of an application and be published (so you don't lose the "saved only" changed)