Upgrade

Pre-requisites

• inRiver connector v.4 need Litium Studio 4.8 and inRiver  (versions 6.1, 6.2 or 6.3) with inRiver connect.

Important changes from v.3 to v.4

1. Command file naming and error file naming is changed. The information contained inside the command files are also changed.
2. xml documents which contain data being imported is changed. You cannot use the v.3 xml documents with v.4

Upgrading inRiver to v 6.1

Makesure the upgrade of inRiver (to v 6.1, 6.2 or 6.3) is complete, and ensure following:

1. inRiver server and inRiver connect starts without crashes and exceptions.
2. All your channel structure is visible in inRiver rich client,
3. inRiver rich client does not freeze when you touch nodes and has finished caching of images, and other optimizations.

Upgrading steps

1. Delete all the xml files from v.3 of inRiver connector. You do not need to delete the entities from Litium Studio, only need to remove xml files.
2. Install inRiver. Refer install section for more details.
3. Configure the connector. Refer configure section for more details.
4. Test connector with a new test assortment with atleast two product groups, one or two products, items and connected images. Makesure it all works ok with new test entities before proceeding.
5. Remove your test entities.
6. Do a full channel publish from inRiver.

Expected full export time

The amount of time to finish the initial export depends on how much data you have in inRiver, how many images, and relationship links.

A standard performance test Litium has performed verfied a inRiver database of 20GB size, 40 000 articles, 120 000 products will get exported in about 18hrs time, when using a shared folder and both inRiver and Litium Studio is using the same machine.

Max transfer time (shared folder in same machine)

a good rule of thumb is to say 0.5 seconds for each entity instance. So, if you have 40 000 articles and 40000 resources, and 120000 products, the total time is : 200 000 / 7200 = 27hrs max time.

Note that, if you have a remote shared folder, and files are coppied over network, network latency will make it more slower than above.