Migrating models from 6.x design servers into the new Designer 7.1 environment is a little under documented currently. There are 2 modes

• Connect to a Design Server
• Offline Mode

The first option is preferred as it connects directly to a live design server and imports the model into your local Designer workspace. However, there as a bug sometime back where it only worked with 6.5 Design Servers.

If you have a 6.1 Design server you might have to use "offline mode". When you do so it asks for the "Modeller Install directory". What it means is the <IntegrationServerInstall>/Servers/RepoV3 directory on the server. Watch out if you have mutiple 6.1 ISes on the same machine, there will probably only be 1 Repo Server running and it might be in another IS RepoV3 folder. Check for the existance of the WmRepository directory under the RepoV3.

Just ftp the RepoV3 folder to your local machine and then point the import tool at this directory and then you can import fine. There is a known bug when it imports complex joins, make sure they are correct or it wont build.

Now your models are stored in your eclipse workspace as one big XML file. You can easily apply CVS version control to these models so they can be checked in and out and shared amongst developers.