Project Export, What Version?

Ignition
1

I have a project that I exported from a version 8 gateway, but I dont remember what exact version. If i unzip the project is there somewhere I can look to tell me what version I was running at the time? I am trying to import the project and it tells me it cannot because of it being a different version.

2

I know that in project resource exports (xml) you can open them with notepad and see the version number, not sure you can do that with .gwbk files

3

i have a project.json file but all it has is this

{
  "title": "",
  "description": "",
  "enabled": true,
  "inheritable": false
}
4

You may just have to restore the export on a development gateway to see what version it is.

5

Are you saying just start installing version of ignition until it lets me import?

6

Are you trying to import this into a 7.9 or prior Ignition?

7

I just tried it again on version 8.0.16 and it imported this time. Not sure what the problem was before.

8

So is there a way to tell what version a project export came from?

9

8.x project export zips don't contain any metadata about what version they came from, somewhat regrettably.

10

Surprisingly I've seen this in a few different HMI packages over the years.
It seems something that wouldn't be too complicated to add I don't know why it often gets omitted.

A colleague thinks that the export is from 8.3 something and I just try to import it into an 8.1 VM and it did so without any warnings.

That being said I'd much rather have things like pop up windows in designer remembering their size and location and or being able to do a case sensitive search with wild cards etc. :slight_smile: