Upgrade 7.5 to 8.0 Impact

[crd]

I want to upgrade my company from EA 7.5 to EA 8.0 and was wondering if folks would share their experiences.   Couple of things about our environment:
1.  Version Control:  We are working in a distributed environment using local models.  Local EAP files - one version controlled repository.
2.  EA version is customized using an MDG Technologies XML file.
3.  Extensive use of the EA API for Word reporting.

From my initial testing it appears that all of my customization comes over flawlessly and that the Word Templates written against the API also have no issues.  This all seems too good to be true.  

Would appreciate your thoughts and recommended strategies.
Thanks,
Carol

[Sunshine]

Going from EA7.5 to 8.0 we experienced problems changes to the RTF generator. It was an early build of V8.0 and a number of the problems have been fixed since.  

Customised MDG Technology seemed to work okay. We have an Investment Logic Map MDG and it all worked fine.

Version control with subversion seemed to work okay as well.

Strategy/tactics for upgrading.
When we upgrade as a rule we generally let one person in the team take the point and they upgrade first. They work with EA for a few days or may be a week on a separate ring fenced EA model(s) testing out the various functions.  If they are happy after that time we upgrade the rest of the team.  Generally the upgrades haven't been problematic but we did experience a few RTF generation issues going from V7.5 to V8.0

If you have a large user base then maybe let a few of the team test the upgrade first and test their different models.

Hope that helps.

[Geert Bellekens]

Carol,

In general EA upgrades are usually painless.
In this case there is one little thing that might cause some troubles.
In 7.5 the package.elements returned all elements contained in the package, even if they where nested into another element.
In 8.0 package.elements returns only the elements owned directly by the package, and not the elements nested in another element.
I would check you Word generator tool for usage of this.

Geert