Importing project as extension

Question

Hello community,

I wanted to try importing my latest project into a new platform using the extension method that I have heard about.

For those who do not know what I mean, there is a way to import a project created on thingworx onto another platform as an extension. This has several benefits like you can make entities non-editable and when upgrading versions old entities are not left on the platform.

Anyway, while trying this I ran into an issue that seems to be quite old.

"Attribute 'aspect.show' is not allowed to appear in element 'FieldDefinition'." - as well as other similar errors like aspect.isIndexed.

I tried to look up some fixes for it and found this post from a few years back.

Now, in this post it is said that if you are going to import something in in a way other than the "import from source control" way, then you should export your entities using the "normal" export function.

It also says the same thing in this support article, although it is also from a few years back.

I tried this, however the "aspect.show" property is still there in the field definition.

And I still get the same error while trying to import my project as an extension.

I do not see it feasible to manually remove these different aspects either as most (perhaps not all) are needed.

Eventually I'll probably open a case with PTC, but before that I thought I'd throw the question out there.

Thanks,

Jens

jensc · Accepted Answer

Hello Community, One final update.PTC support found the issue. We had used a reserved name in one of our data shapes:"ThingShape" is apparently a reserved word by the platform.The error message was not very clear so the PTC support has reported this to R&D so we can only hope this will be prevented in future releases. Regards,Jens

jensc · Answer

Hello,

Forgot to say what versions I am using.
I have exported my project as source control from a 9.3.5 platform.

My first test was to import it into a 9.1 platform, which I figured perhaps wasn't the best test as there could be some compatibility issues.

So I tried it on a 9.3.4 platform but ended up with a different yet similar error message:

"Element 'ThingShape' cannot have character [children], because the type's content type is element-only."

When checking my "ThingShape" element in the entity that fails it looks like:

<ThingShape>
 <PropertyDefinitions></PropertyDefinitions>
 <ServiceDefinitions></ServiceDefinitions>
 <EventDefinitions></EventDefinitions>
 <ServiceMappings></ServiceMappings>
 <ServiceImplementations></ServiceImplementations>
 <Subscriptions></Subscriptions>
</ThingShape>

Not really sure why it wouldn't work though...

Thanks,

Jens

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