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Encyclopedias

CA Gen Host Encyclopedia and Client-Server Encyclopedia support current and prior schema models. Prior schema models cannot use the new features of the current schema. However, prior schema models can use other, non-schema that is related, features of the new release.

CA Gen supports transition models in the second prior schema. You can upload and convert them to the current schema release level or you can delete them.

For the models at a schema level older than the second prior schema, you convert them to the second prior schema or prior schema using an encyclopedia release that precedes CA Gen Release 8.5 before converting them to the current schema. If a model is not in the current schema, the prior schema, or the second prior schema after the upgrade completes, the only permitted encyclopedia operation on the model is to delete it.

Important! Do not upgrade your encyclopedia before completing the model conversions to a schema that is at least the second prior schema for this release.

Some constraints apply to encyclopedia functions that use multiple models. For example, when using version control, the following table identifies supported and unsupported combinations.