update detection switching to built-in contexts

[Anonymous]

I am using Talend Open Studio for Data Integration 6.3.0, working on a set of Talend jobs developed by the person who previously did my job. The Talend jobs were developed on a Mac and I copied them to my Windows PC via github. 

The jobs use several Repository Contexts which are available in Talend and I can invoke them, by for example, using the "Select Context Variables" from the Contexts panel of a job. 

However A "Update Detection" dialog appears every time I open a job in Talend. The check boxes are all disabled so one cannot do anything but change to built-in. One can cancel the dialog but it will appear again next time. And in the jobs, the contexts contain the old data instead of the new values found in the Repositories. I have to update each job individually to use the repositories. 

I see some forum posts with similar issues, but no solution that applies to my situation.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Hello
It might be an issue on migration via github. With community edition, the correct approach to migrate project or jobs is export/import projects or items. 
Can you try to export the items from studio on Mac and then import the items into studio on Windows? Let me know if the problem still exist or not?

Regards
Shong

[Anonymous]

Hi Shong, thanks for the reply. I had already suspected this was the cause. It is a bit late for us to re-migrate the projects. So here is what I've been doing, it seems to work:

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open each job on my computer

click OK at the "update detection" dialog to accept the forced change to built-in mode

in the job, delete the contexts (which show the old "built-in" values)

use the "select context variables" icon to re-add the contexts from the repository

[Anonymous]

Yes, this workaround is feasible if there are not a lot of jobs. 

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your help.