how to upgrade to V4 with custom template ?

[dotcom22]

Hi

 

I have just upgrade to version 4 but I don't understand well how to do about template. In fact I use a customized "portal" template where I have make a lot modification...Now I see new portal template are totally different and I see also some change are made in some template file as describe on wiki upgrade step here

 

So how I must make my upgrade ? I would like continue to use my old customized portal template.... I start to make some confusion with my template, new portal template and modified template file.... I imagine the list of modified template files are not only modified for graphical reason but also because it contain new code ??

 

thanks

 

Mirko

[Lightwave]

First... I'd suggest not making changes to the distributed templates.

If you want to base a template off of portal... copy the portal directory and rename it to your own domain or something.

 

Then set the template under Setup->General Settings->Template

 

That way, when things upgrade... you won't overwrite your templates. Granted, they might not work anymore...

[dotcom22]

Thanks for suggestions but it is what I have do...My custome template use the base of portal template of version 3.8 and I hace copy, modify and renamed it...

 

But now with new version 4 I don't understand if I can continue to use it....

 

On upgrade page it is write the follow files are been updated:

 

The following template files have changed from the previous release V3.8

 

* bulkdomainchecker.tpl

* bulkdomaintransfer.tpl

* clientareaaddcontact.tpl

* clientareachangepw.tpl

* clientareachangesq.tpl

* clientareacontacts.tpl

* clientareacreditcard.tpl

* clientareadetails.tpl

* clientareadomaindetails.tpl

* clientareadomainrenew.tpl

* clientareadomains.tpl

* clientareahome.tpl

* clientareainvoices.tpl

* clientareaproducts.tpl

* clientareaproductdetails.tpl

* clientregister.tpl

* domainchecker.tpl

* downloads.tpl

* knowledgebase.tpl

* passwordreminder.tpl

* supportticketsubmit-steptwo.tpl

* upgrade.tpl

* upgradesummary.tpl

* viewinvoice.tpl

* viewticket.tpl

 

* All Order Form Templates

 

...so that mean if any of above files are been modified by me in my costomized template I must analyze that files and customize again according to my need ?

 

Am totally confused.....

[Lightwave]

You might... you might not...

It should be pretty simple to tell if your customized templates still work or not.

[mediademon]

Just doing this myself...

 

Try using http://winmerge.org/ to check the differences between the changed template files above!

 

Hope this helps

[Zorro67]

We do similar, but as our templates have contained continuous customisations since 3.2, we don't want to break the extra functionaility that we've implemented.

 

I simply do a comparison between the new version and the previous version and identify the "new" or changed code

 

I also duplicate our template and add the code the duplicate, so that whilst doing the template conversions, the customer sees a working platform, while I can see a live model of the new templates

 

Its a slower process at around 2 hours , but I find it easier than trying to add our code to the new templates. (we've taken out most of the validation errors versions ago)

 

You can also use notepad++, which has a useful 'compare' function between 2 files.

[webberoo]

I've found "Kdiff" really helpful when comparing scripts for changes in the past.

 

http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/