[AWIPS #XBI-122690]: Procedures and color tables all gone

Hi Carrie,

Unfortunately, we haven't been able to restore your procedures and colormaps 
this time.
You will have to recreate them to get them to appear again with this version of 
AWIPS.

However, going forward, there is a way for you to save things locally, in case 
we're
not able to restore them after an AWIPS upgrade.  I must state, though, that 
there is 
no guarantee procedures/colormaps/etc saved from one version of AWIPS, and then 
uploaded
into a different version of AWIPS, will work properly.

But, if you would like to save files locally, you can do that as added 
insurance for a
backup.  I am going to write and publish a blog post about this, with 
screenshots, that
might make more sense, but I wanted to let you know the steps sooner rather 
than later.

To save your files locally:
1. Once you have created your configuration in CAVE D2D (whether it be a 
colormap or a
procedure, or something else), open the "Localization" Perspective from the 
CAVE menu >
Perspective > Localization.
2. Find the file you're looking for using the file browser on the left.  As a 
tip,
color maps are found under the "CAVE" option, and procedures are found under 
the "D2D"
option.
3. Expand the entry and right click on the USER option > Open with > System 
Editor.
Here you might have a to choose a text editor that's on your machine, to be 
able to open 
it.
4. Now save the file in another location, so that you have a local copy. 

Now you have the files saved locally.  If your settings/configurations ever 
disappear in the
future, you can do the following to bring them back:
1. Open the localization perspective and go to the relevant folder (CAVE > 
Color Maps, for 
example)
2. Right click on that folder and select Import File...
3. Use the file dialog to select the file you saved locally.

And now the color map will be back in AWIPS, and will save to our EDEX, so you 
don't need to
do that again in the future.  But, just remember, with an upgrade in EDEX 
versions, there is
a possibility that these old files may not work.

We will put out a blog with these steps and some screenshots to help clarify.  
Please join
our mailing list, awips2-users, if you're not already on it.  We use the 
mailing list to notify
our users of new blog posts and important AWIPS updates or statuses (EDEX 
outage, ect).
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/index.html#mailinglists

Thanks.
--Shay Carter

She/Her/Hers
AWIPS Software Engineer
NSF Unidata

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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: XBI-122690
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: High
Status: Open
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