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title: "Document activity data upgrade journey questions"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/CDALS/649822471/Document%20activity%20data%20upgrade%20journey%20questions"
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[data center] 

### Overview

To help you manage the impact on your users caused by scheduled maintenance periods, a pre-upgrade data check process is provided to

- validate that the upgrade can be undertaken
- provide an indication of the time required for the upgrade
- identify any upgrade errors for specific pages in each space

If there is an error when running the pre-upgrade check for a space a downloadable support package is created to allow the review of the validation checks.

To ensure that the document activity data upgrade is complete and accurate, you will need to enable **Read Only Mode. **As this capability is only available in Confluence Data Center - Comala Document Approval 2 is ***data center only***.

## Document activity data upgrade journey questions

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| [NOW] | The [Document Activity Upgrade console](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649789715) is available prior to the upgrade of your data to run pre-upgrade checks. Pre-upgrade checks and upgrade can be run in a single operation.<br>> 📝 Pre-upgrade checks do not require you to enable **Read Only Mode**. You only need to enable **Read Only Mode** when you are upgrading. |
| [NOW] | On installation of Comala Document Approval 2.0+<br>- new spaces will automatically use document activity
- existing spaces ***without an applied workflow**** *will use document activity when a workflow is applied
- existing spaces ***with an applied workflow*** will need to be upgraded to use document activity |
| [NOW] | Users can continue working with Comala Document Approval and choose the time of upgrade for each space after upgrading the app to Comala Document Approval 2.0 for data center. |
| [sustainability] | Workflow activity data will continue to be stored in previous format for the life of Comala Document Approval 2.0. |
| [robustness] | When upgrading, the upgrade is set as **Complete** or **Partially complete** at the space level. If errors are detected in the upgrade process, no data is committed to the new format. A support package is added to the [Document Activity Upgrade console](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649789715) when an upgrade is set as **Partially Complete**. |
| [in-app support] | The [Document Activity Upgrade console](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649789715) enables admins to check the status of the upgrade in Comala Document Document Approval 2.0+ for each space across their instance. |
| [UPGRADE] | On installing Comala Document Approval 2.0+, pre-upgrade checks and the upgrade can be executed on a space-by-space basis to minimize the impact on your end-users.<br>> 📝 You need to enable **Read Only Mode** in your data center instance when you are upgrading the document activity data. |
| [upgrade help] | Pre-upgrade check validation errors are recorded in a downloadable **Support Package** that you can attach to a support request. This is added to the space listed with an error in the [Document Activity Upgrade console](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649789715). |

 [Comala Document Approval 1.11](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649691637)+ for server and data center provides the ability to run 

- **pre-upgrade checks** on a space-by-space basis so that you may validate your existing activity and get upgrade duration estimates (this ***does not*** require Read Only Mode)

**Comala Document Approval 2.0** for data center only provides the ability to run

- **pre-upgrade checks and upgrades** on a space-by-space basis allowing you to prioritize and schedule each space upgrade

## Related pages

- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649527410](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649527410)
- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649789715](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649789715)
- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/650150231](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/650150231)