In older FM versions, if you installed the program in another language then the EDD was also structured with localized element names. That makes it impossibe to copy elements into a different EDD.
Is there a way to convert the EDD without creating each individual context rule from scratch? I suppose importing the old EDD structure (the EDD of the EDD so to speak) would be a bad solution because of the mismatching EDD versions.
Robert
P.S. I asked Scott via the FMx homepage before I realized that this might be of general interest. If I receive a direct answer I'll post it here.
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My guess is, that you want to include the automatic insertions on the same level to your existing EDD.
This can be done quite easily, even without upgrading your existing EDD.
To achieve this:
1. You open up your EDD.
2. You select Structure Tools.
3. Save element catalogue as new EDD.
4. Search the element "automatic insertions".
5. Fix the InsertChild to InsertChild*.
6. Save the changed "mother EDD" to some filename.
7. Import the elements to your old EDD.
8. Save your old EDD.
After doing this, you can include those multiple auto insertions just fine 
FM11 will recognize it as valid and you can work with it as if you upgraded your EDD to a higher version.
Cheers Alex
Hi Robert,
I was using a english EDD (Version 8) for my test. The Generated "mother EDD" had also German element tags (using a german FM11). But the element names for the actual EDD were still english. So I reimported the changed EDD and had still vaild English elements.
The same would work for a old German EDD. As long as you only export/change/import without using a newly created EDD you stay in the language version of the original EDD.
A bit confusing - but just try it out and you'll see what happens.
This is only, if you want to change certain things in that EDD (namely the "only one insertchild element possible" restriction).
If you want to change all element names to get a localized version, you'd need either an already localized "mother EDD" or copy paste the element names from the old version to the new one.
Only solve one problem at a time 
My initial thought was, that you would want to upgrade the EDD version to solve some shortcomings of the old EDD implementation rules and especially that issue we already discussed earlier.
That's why I tried to solve that single problem for you.
Cheers Alex
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