Exceptional upgrade: From Collaborative Review 7.1 to Collaborative Review 7.3

Collaborative Review database version changed between Collaborative Review 7.1 and Collaborative Review 7.3. The differences between the two database versions leads to the creation of permission files duplicates during the upgrade process. This requires special action.

Whenever you upgrade Collaborative Review version 7.1 or earlier towards a version 7.3 or later, you need to first delete specific files, and then proceed to a double RESTORE. Here are the steps that differ from the ones described in the upgrade overview

Before the old database BACKUP
  1. Evoke a command line console from the WEB-INF folder.
  2. Run the loaddb.bat client command.
  3. Go to db\LiveContent\config\permissions\
  4. Remove the files
    • Contribution Managers
    • Publication Managers
    • Tech Docs
After the new Collaborative Review is installed, replace the loaddb RESTORE step by
  1. Proceed to loaddb RESTORE with the old database backup.
  2. Run a loaddb BACKUP with the new database.
  3. RESTORE again with that second backup.