Attaching Old Session To New Route?

[boleyd]

Added some "stuff" to a route and saved it as a new copy. Now how do I attach an existing working session to it?

 

[HPL]

In CM, Ctrl+E on the session, copy the folder somewhere else, open config.txt and replace the original route ID by the new one (2 occurrences), then import the session.

 

[boleyd]

Thanks - Maybe someday N3V will write that as a function..

 

[JCitron]

Yeah right, just like making backups easy to restore.

Rather than dealing with that process, I now go about this differently.

I open up the session in Surveyor and do a save-as.

I choose, Create a new session and route or however it's worded. The route and session can be named at this point to and I update the date and version number that I use as part of my route names, i.e. Enfield Rail Version 16 ---- 06-22-2024. When saved, the session will have the same name except session. I will open that up for editing in Content Manager to rename that to something else such as append Daily Operations.

This will update the route to the new version and give you a copy of the session too so that nothing is lost.

If you've made any environment changes in your session, you will need to reset those in your route so you can see what you are doing.

 

[oldman777]

I am very lazy and in order not to change the kuid of several sessions in two places each, In CM, Ctrl+E on the route,
copy the folder somewhere else, open config.txt and replace new route kuid by the original one.
Then import this folder through the CM.

 

[JCitron]

I am very lazy and in order not to change the kuid of several sessions in two places each, In CM, Ctrl+E on the route,
copy the folder somewhere else, open config.txt and replace new route kuid by the original one.
Then import this folder through the CM.

I use Notepad++ multiple file search and replace feature.

Open up the config.txt files for editing for all the sessions.

Using Notepad++ Search for the old map-kuid and replace that with the new one on the map-kuid line and also replaces the one in the kuid-table automatically. With multiple sessions, this will update all the config.txt files that are opened up for all the sessions.

Once updated, close the config.txt files and submit all opened the sessions in Content Manager.

 

[chili46]

I use Notepad++ multiple file search and replace feature.

Open up the config.txt files for editing for all the sessions.

Using Notepad++ Search for the old map-kuid and replace that with the new one on the map-kuid line and also replaces the one in the kuid-table automatically. With multiple sessions, this will update all the config.txt files that are opened up for all the sessions.

Once updated, close the config.txt files and submit all opened the sessions in Content Manager.

Pretty much exactly the way I've done it. Simple and easy.

 

[PGibbons]

Only problem I see is if the Session references items in the Route which no longer exist.
PG

 

[JCitron]

Only problem I see is if the Session references items in the Route which no longer exist.
PG

I ran into this issue once and ran Delete missing assets in the session. When I saved, I had to save both the route and the session.

 

[lewisner]

I was going to ask a similar question till I noticed this thread so apologies if this sounds dumb, but I lost a lot of work in a computer rebuild a year and a bit ago but I have a Session named "Leamside Line" with no associated Route. Is there any way the Session can be used to rebuild the Route ? It may be useless but I want to find out what stage the Route was at when I created the Session.

 

[stagecoach]

A session can not rebuild a route as it contains no data only reference points to the original route. It will have a map kuid of the route it was attached to.