Behavior:
During your DocuWare 7.4 or higher upgrade, the installer loads a blank white screen and does not proceed.
Solution:
This occurs due to the following error in the DocuWare.Setup.Server.log, located in C:\Programdata\DocuWare\SetupLogs:
"DocuWare.DAL.XChange.DWDBException: Illegal mix of collations (utf8_unicode_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation '='",
To resolve this issue, please implement the following;
- Close the DocuWare Server setup
- To fix this error, please see the KBA-36263.
- Re-run the DocuWare Server setup for the version you're upgrading to.
KBA is applicable to On-Premise Organizations ONLY.