Importing an app after upgrading WAB Dev edition?

[RichardHughes2]

Hello,

After upgrading to the newest version of WAV Dev Edition 2.4, I'd like to not have to recreate my apps.  Is there a documented workflow or does esri not support this?

[RickeyFight]

You can import an existing app:

Create or import an app—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Developer Edition) | ArcGIS for Developers 

Another option is to copy in your \server\apps folder from 2.3 to the 2.4 

This will work for small version changed such as 2.3-2.4 but I do not think i will work in larger changes such as 1.x-2.0

[RebeccaStrauch__GISP · Accepted solution]

or another possibility  Upgrade apps—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Developer Edition) | ArcGIS for Developers 

[RichardHughes2]

Rebecca,

I've tried upgrading but keep getting an invalid path error.  Have you been able to use the upgrade console command?  

[RichardHughes2]

Rebecca,

One other thing to note is that I have a git repo in the web app builder installation directory.  

[RebeccaStrauch__GISP]

Sorry. Wish I could say I've tried it, but I haven't yet.  Just wanted to provide the other help doc.  But Rickey's suggestion might actually work better.

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Richard,

   I use the command line upgrade each time a new version is released for WAB. The only thing to remember is that you need to launch the command line window with elevated privileges (Run As Administrator).

[RichardHughes2]

Rob,

Just to be sure I ran it again and received this error.

 

Question: Is it an absolute requirement to have WebAppBuilder run inside the directory that it is extracted into?  How do you manage your git repo if this is the case since the repo has to be created in an empty directory?

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Richard,

   No there is no requirement to have WAB run in the directory it was extracted to. I don't use git for version management, so I don't have any advice there.

[Cook_CountyGIS]

Did you resolve this Invalid Path error?  I am unable to upgrade from 2.7 to 2.8.