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title: "What is the document activity data upgrade process when I upgrade to version 7 and later?"
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### Overview

In Comala Document Management Data Center 7.0 or later, workflow events and activities are recorded as **document activities.** This new capability stores workflow events in a real database using an Atlassian framework, offering improved performance, stability, and scalability. This is a significant change from previous app versions, which stored workflow events and activities as **page activity** data in XML page content properties.

On installation of Comala Document Management 7.0 or later

- New spaces automatically use document activity to record workflow events and activities
- 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

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 need to enable **Read Only Mode.**

## Document activity data upgrade journey questions

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| [PRE v7] | The [Document Activity Upgrade Console](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDML/pages/649760247) is available from v6.17+ prior to the upgrade of your data to run pre-upgrade checks. Pre-upgrade checks and upgrades 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. |
| [FROM v7+] | On installation of Comala Document Management 7.0+<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<br>Users can continue working with Comala Document Management and choose the time of upgrade for each space after upgrading the app to Comala Document Management 7.0 for data center. |
| [sustainability] | Workflow activity data will continue to be stored in previous format for the life of Comala Document Management 7.0. |
| [robustness] | When upgrading, the upgrade is set as **Complete** or **Partially complete** at the space level.<br>- 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/CDML/pages/649760247) when an upgrade is set as **Partially Complete** |
| [in-app support] | The [Document Activity Upgrade Console](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDML/pages/649760247) enables admins to check the status of the upgrade in Comala Document Document Management 7.0+ for each space across their instance. |
| [UPGRADE] | On installing Comala Document Management 7.0+, 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 data check validation errors are recorded in a downloadable **Support Package** that you can attach to a support request.<br>> ℹ️ This support package is added to the space listed with an error(s) in the [Document Activity Upgrade Console](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDML/pages/649760247). |

 [Comala Document Management 6.17](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDML/pages/649825498)+ for server and data center provides the ability to run 

- **pre-upgrade data 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 Management 7.0** for data center provides the ability to run

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

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