Subject says it all!
I have a client that needs to change an existing Crestron Mobile to the Crestron App. I tried doing a 'Save As' and VTPro rejected it...I get it...
Any one have any tricks??

TIA!

There is a convert to smart graphics option in VT but I never had to use it and I read many comments that it is sometimes better to start fresh.

There is a way to do it but the result not be anywhere close to what you had and it would only work for smaller projects.  I tried it on one of my larger Crestron Mobile projects and it quickly mushroomed to a file over 30x larger and very quickly crashed my windows machine. At 700mB, you will get an allocation memory error. If that happens, delete unused graphics and delete commented out pages. When project size gets down to 248MB, you will no longer get allocation errors. Plus no Anchor points in Smart Graphics.

So the short answer is no.  You will be better off starting from scratch.

Crestron Mobile is the old style of panel and Crestron App is smart graphics. They are not compatible. You will have to make a new panel and design it to emulate the old panel.

Thanks Zac,
Yes, I missed the Convert to Smart Graphics Button in VTP - After a couple tries, it actually worked pretty good I think.
All the text is microscopic, so there's some work to be done there, but overall it's not terrible, at least not like starting from scratch!!

We're still going to discuss a re-write, but this give me a good option - Thanks for all the quick responses!!

Follow-up...
Well! It did convert the project, with small text, but the BIG THING is that it did not copy ANY Joins!!!  so it is, as Natalie pointed out, not actually compatible...
Typical Digital Age: All promise and no delivery!...:)

I ran into the same issue in the past, just add a new button to the old layout an give it a random join number, convert again, this time the joins should be also taken over to the converted project.

--Hi Guys

I have succussed to convert Crestron mobile VTP to Crestron app with the full join numbers,
all you need to change the application settings,
from VTP above tabs (Options / Preferences / Application / under Operation marks / Please mark "Retain high join numbers when converting project"/ then ok)
Then you can right click on the project, press convert to smart graphic, the project will keep the join numbers and converts it to smart graphic
 

Medhat Abdeltawab - Egypt
Eng.Medhat.Abdeltawab@...

That's interesting!  So when they say 'Retain HIGH join numbers' they mean all join numbers??

DM and we can check it out.