I believe LR may have suggested importing XML into a new structure. That’ll give you what you want. You can then open the old structure with a 4D copy and drag&drop methods & forms across.
depending on the size (and age) of your structure, probably easier to manually rename the relations, I guess > On Apr 10, 2018, at 6:33 PM, Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > On Apr 10, 2018, at 12:40 PM, Randy Engle wrote: > >> I tried this from several different angles (16r6) >> Import XML Structure works like importing records. >> It doesn't "update" or "merge", just imports new structure elements (Tables) >> >> Perhaps Laurent was confused at that moment? > > You are right Randy. I did some quick tests and IMPORT STRUCTURE command > will not update existing tables. The documentation says "If an imported table > has the same name as a local one, an error is generated and the import > operation is aborted.” and this is the case. > > So Laurent must have been confused and maybe thought, why create fields with > SQL when you could create tables and fields with the IMPORT STRUCTURE > command. You can do that, but what we want to do is update existing tables > and fields and that is currently not possible with this command. > > So we are stuck again with the inability to set the “map NULL values to > blank” field property when creating fields with SQL. > > Tim > > Tim Nevels > timnev...@mac.com <mailto:timnev...@mac.com> > Innovative Solutions > 785-749-3444 > > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > ********************************************************************** -- Julio Carneiro jjfo...@gmail.com ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
