I've building a Codeplug for an APX8500. The Personalities that I need are on an old XTS5000. Is there a way to get the 50 Personalities off the old Astro CPS software onto the APX CPS without going line by line? Can't do a drag and drop from the old software to the new, that I am aware of.
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Astro 25 CPS to CPS APX question
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MTS2000des
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Export to CSV in Astro 25 CPS. Import from CSV in APX CPS. You will have to clean up data but it beats manually entering everything line by line.
Thank you, sir. I'll give it a try
MTS2000des
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You are absolutely right, it's been 6 years since I had to convert our AS25 plugs to the first evolution of our APX plugs. Knew I missed a step.
If you don't have access to the APX migration tool, there is a way you could still save yourself a lot of time. While you don't get the option to right click copy/paste in Astro 25 CPS. Ctrl + C still works.
While it won't save you as much time as the migration tool, you can copy/paste the talk group ID into excel using ctrl + shift and down to highlight all the talk groups and then ctrl + c to copy and paste them into excel. In excel, delete everything to the right of the talk group ID
In excel, insert a new column in front of the talk group ID and name the talk group as it's known in the trunking system. Take that information and paste into APX CPS. From there you just have configure a few things in the trunking personality.
In the zone channel assignment you can use this same process and at the very least, get your channel layout out done and channel names out of the way.
With 50 zones it's will still take a day but it's better than doing absolutely everything one by one.
While it won't save you as much time as the migration tool, you can copy/paste the talk group ID into excel using ctrl + shift and down to highlight all the talk groups and then ctrl + c to copy and paste them into excel. In excel, delete everything to the right of the talk group ID
In excel, insert a new column in front of the talk group ID and name the talk group as it's known in the trunking system. Take that information and paste into APX CPS. From there you just have configure a few things in the trunking personality.
In the zone channel assignment you can use this same process and at the very least, get your channel layout out done and channel names out of the way.
With 50 zones it's will still take a day but it's better than doing absolutely everything one by one.
Thanks Tech. that is very helpful. Appreciate the info!
Not directly, no. You would need to either drag-n-drop between codeplugs, or use the export/import XML function.
mikegilbert
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I've had good luck exporting CSVs to google sheets, then pasting columns into APX CPS
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You can clone but you open up two copies of CPS right next to each other and make sure you have the system key open on both CPS copies open
Drag the Serial number from the top of the tree and drag it over the other serial number on the other copy of CPS. You most likely will have invalid fields but you can clean that up pretty easy
Drag the Serial number from the top of the tree and drag it over the other serial number on the other copy of CPS. You most likely will have invalid fields but you can clean that up pretty easy
That's not cloning, that's simply dragging and dropping as I already explained. Also, the top of the tree is technically the codeplug alias, not the serial number. It will default to the serial number only if the codeplug alias is blank.
In any event, this thread is about XTS to APX, not APX to APX. @Baker845 really should've started his own thread for his question.
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