Deployment of Applications that Use Unsupported GI Presentation Channels
The use of TIBCO General Interface (GI) forms and presentation channels was deprecated in favor of GWT-based alternatives in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM Version 1.3.1. Design-time support for GI was discontinued at Version 2.2.
TIBCO recommends that if you have applications that use GI presentation channels you should replace any GI channels with GWT equivalents. You can do this simply in TIBCO Business Studio (from version 3.6) as described in the "Identifying an Appropriate Presentation Channel" section in TIBCO Business Studio BPM Implementation.
Alternatively if you have not regenerated the application in TIBCO Business Studio, the WPProperties.properties file contains a property that you can use to replace any GI channel at deployment.
The upgradeGIChannel property determines what happens when you deploy an application that still uses a channel of presentation type GI as its presentation channel:
- If it is set to true, a warning is generated and the GI channel is changed to a GWT equivalent. This is the default behavior.
- If the upgradeGIChannel property is set to false, deployment fails. The error message Invalid Presentation Type 'GI' found. Please rebuild DAA with a later version of Business Studio is generated.
If at runtime TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM opens an item that uses a GI channel as its presentation channel, a warning is automatically generated and the GI channel is changed to a GWT equivalent. This runtime behavior is not configurable.