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Hello,

I have a set of reports written in VB. Today, all new reports are being developed in javascript (JS).

From what I know, VB support is discontinued in more recent versions of ARIS. Since a platform upgrade is inevitable, I am anticipating the migration of all VB reports to JS.

What options do I have, besides translating all the code by hand (VB ->JS)?

Automatic translation of VB to JS, is it possible? I know there are some solutions I can find on the net, but I was looking for a more contextualized solution (ARIS).

Anyone has experience on migrating ARIS VB reports to ARIS Javascript? Are there any tools available from Software AG?

Thanks in advance!

by Pablo Gonzalez
Posted on Tue, 02/15/2011 - 22:41

Hi Mr. Kyle,

If you are using ARIS Business Architect 7.0.x there is a default tool named ARIS Script Converter on ARIS Platform / Administration / Script Converter.



It was designed specifically for conversions from VB to Javascript.



Regards,

Pablo

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by Deleted User Author
Posted on Wed, 02/16/2011 - 12:13

Thanks for the prompt reply.

The most similar tool I have installed is "ARIS Converter", but it hasn no references to script conversion.

Probably my installation is missing some components, and that can be corrected in the future.

However, it's great to know there is already a tool developed to address this specific problem.

Best regards

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by Ciska de Jager
Posted on Wed, 02/16/2011 - 15:11

In reply to by Teygr2

Hi,

You can import VB-scripts (rso, rsg, rsm, rsd) scripts into Business Arichitect. Create a new report group in BA, when you select import a window will open where you need to browse to the folder where the scripts are, here you first need to select the file type (VB Report file) ......, select the vbscript and import. This is however a standard conversion and you need to do some tweaking and changes but at least this is better than starting over.

You may get some errors when importing, you need to comment this out of the VB script before you can import to javascript, but you will get a message indicating the line where the command could not be converted.

Like all the older VBScripts you need to convert them to the latest Aris version or at least to Aris 7.1, you will not be able to import a Aris 7.0 or older Aris version VBScript, and the script converter mentioned here I think may only be installed when you install Aris Toolset.

Hope this helps

Ciska

 

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by Pablo Gonzalez
Posted on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 11:06

In reply to by Teygr2

Hi Mr. Kyle,

Actually this tool is part of ARIS 7.0.x only. Let me tell you a brief story: until ARIS 6.2.x the scripts were developed in VB script and ARIS 7.0x was the first release to work with Javascript. For that reason there was a script converter by default (see below).

The ARIS Platform 7.1 intend to use Javascript only and the conversion is embedded, but you need to take care with that because just basic functions are supported. If you have in your VB scripts forms, interactions, etc, it maybe does not work on Javascript converter.



Anyway, follow the instructions from Ms. Ciska (above) for ARIS 7.1.

Regards.

 

 

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by Andre Sales
Posted on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 01:59

Hi guys,

So, indeed in both cases it will works and in both cases you'll need to make some corrections if you have different functions than the basic ones.

Try to use someone and let us know about your experience, Mr. Kyle.

 

See you,

Ande Sales

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