Import your TracerPlus projects
Studio reads a TracerPlus 10 project and turns it into a draft StepVane app. A report says, line by line, what converted, what works a little differently, and what you still need to rebuild.
What comes across
- Sessions and fields — each TracerPlus session becomes its own StepVane session with its own page.
- Forms with their exact layout, fonts and colors, as free-position pages that scale to the device.
- Tab pages, grids and timers.
- Logic rules as workflows — most JavaScript included. Buttons with logic and a built-in action open as one workflow.
- TracerPlus Connect lists, exports and scheduled jobs (add the Connect
.tcpprofiles). - Users as operators, the launcher and the theme.
What the import never does
- It never copies a password or a secret. The report lists each one it left behind and where to put it.
- It never publishes. The result is a draft you review, simulate and publish yourself.
- Reading the project happens in Studio itself — nothing is sent to the server until you create the draft.
How an import works
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Collect the project files
On the PC with TracerPlus Desktop, find the project’s ProjectFiles folder (next to the
.tpp). To bring the Connect lists, exports and jobs too, add the Connect profiles (*.tcp). Zip it all, or use the folder directly. -
Import in Studio
On the Apps page click Import TracerPlus project, choose the zip, the
.tpp(when it is a zip), the loose files or the folder, and decide how TracerPlus users should come across. -
Read the report, create the draft
The report counts what was found and sorts every line into Converted, Works differently — check, Needs you and Skipped. Download it if you like, then click Create draft app.
A report you can work through
Every line names where to look in TracerPlus, where the result is in StepVane, and what happened. Nothing is renamed, so the names in the report are the names Studio shows.
| Line | Means |
|---|---|
| Needs you | Not converted — rebuild this in Studio. Mostly JavaScript the importer could not follow and complex SQL. |
| Works differently — check | Converted, but it behaves a little differently; the line says how. |
| Converted | Works as it did in TracerPlus. |
| Skipped | Rules, processes or buttons that were switched off in TracerPlus. |
Rules that could not be converted come in as clearly named, switched-off scripts, so the rest of each event still runs while you rebuild them.
Users and PINs
You choose what the TracerPlus users become: imported as operators only when the project required a login (the default), always imported, or not imported.
A numeric password of 6 to 12 digits becomes the operator’s PIN, stored only as a slow salted hash. Shorter numeric passwords keep working but are flagged to change; any other password is not imported and the report asks you to set a PIN.
The limits, honestly
- Only TracerPlus 10 projects are read. A
.tppis opened only when it is a zip file. - Not converted: printing reports (
.rpt), messaging, web-service sessions, Publisher branding and device-level scanner settings (set those in Studio’s device defaults). - Grids bound to controls become plain table grids; add rows with an Add a row step.
- Some rule event types are not converted; the report names the trigger to rebuild them with.
The suggested path for moving a site
Import and finish
Install StepVane, import the project and rebuild the Needs you lines as workflow steps.
Point the data at your systems
Set the database connection strings, copy lookup files, and check that exports and transfers write where Connect did.
Run in parallel, then roll out
Simulate every session, publish, pair one handheld and run a shift side by side. Compare the exported rows, then roll out.
The full mapping of every TracerPlus idea to its StepVane equivalent is in the manual, section 16 · Importing from TracerPlus.
TracerPlus is a trademark of its owner. StepVane is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by the makers of TracerPlus. The name is used only to say which project files the importer can read. See the trademark notice.
Bring a project and try it
The import is free: install StepVane, import your project and read the report before you decide anything.