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Publish model in VPM format from Vensim 8.04

Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:41 pm
by Phill
Hello,
I am running Vensim DSS 8.04 and models are published in VPMX format. A colleague with an older copy of Vensim cannot open these files. IS it possible to publish models in VPM format from Vensim 8.94? I can't see an option to do that and editing the file suffix doesn't work.

Phill

Re: Publish model in VPM format from Vensim 8.04

Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:42 pm
by Administrator
No, the latest version of Vensim cannot publish the older format files.

You could give them the MDL, the older version should be able to read that.

Re: Publish model in VPM format from Vensim 8.04

Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:44 pm
by Phill
Wow, that was quick! Thanks. I'll tell them they need to upgrade.

Phill

Re: Publish model in VPM format from Vensim 8.04

Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 3:07 pm
by Phill
Another question. Has the Vensim DLL changed too? I created an MDL in Vensim 8.04 and then we published that model as a VPM file in Vensim 7. We are trying to run it on our Unix server using the Vensim DLL, but the variable values are not changing as we run through the time steps. When we were only using Vensim 7, all this ran very well, so I'm not sure where the problem is, unless it's to do with the upgrade.

Re: Publish model in VPM format from Vensim 8.04

Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 4:21 pm
by Administrator
Can you email us direct and we'll take a look.

Re: Publish model in VPM format from Vensim 8.04

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:50 pm
by tomfid
If the model was moved to Vensim v7 in mdl format, published in v7, and run with the v7 dll, then it's hard to see how the v8 changes could be involved. Maybe a change in the scripting or data?

Re: Publish model in VPM format from Vensim 8.04

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:09 pm
by Phill
I created the model in Vensim 8.04, then we found the published VPM file wouldn't run under the V7 DLL. So I loaded the MDL file from v8.04 into Vensim 7, published the VPM file from there and now it runs under the DLL on the server, without any problems.

Re: Publish model in VPM format from Vensim 8.04

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 2:26 pm
by tomfid
Ah ... the v8 publication will contain a vmfx, which won't run in v7. We can rebuild the MC library for the new format if needed.

Re: Publish model in VPM format from Vensim 8.04

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 7:10 am
by Phill
It's a minor step to load a finished MDL to the older version of Vensim to publish the model as VPM instead of VPMX, so long as no 'backwards compatability' issues crop up. But we'd love to run both Vensim and Ventity models on a Unix server, so if ever you have the time to build Unix libraries for the latest versions of both.....! ;-)