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[icbl Friend icblJoin date: December 2010Posts: 242Downloads:0Uploads:28 Thanks: 86 Thanked: 7 times in 1 posts]

#167801

Is there any expected date for JA Social 1.7 or any link that we can follow whats happening?

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[Manos Moderator ManosJoin date: February 2014Posts: 2806Downloads:46Uploads:56 Thanks: 200 Thanked: 633 times in 576 posts]

#408540

Hi icbl,

Our team is working hard to keep up and upgrade our templates, however there is no ETA yet for JA Social . Keep looking at our blogs and you will get noticed.

Please take a look here if you already haven’t seen this -> http://www.joomlart.com/updates/joomla-templates/8-more-templates-updated-released-for-joomla-17

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Manos

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#408541

Hi Manos,

I checking everyday since months. We have waited for 1.6 very long time with acceptable reasons but now I just hopping to not experincing same thing as there is no plug in incompability. I think such a popular template deserving little more priority.

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#408542

Hi,

If you plan to develop your site based on JA Social i can tell you this, i have tested JA Social for J.1.6.x on my loclhost and upgraded to J.1.7. and so far it works fine, i haven’t seen any problems! And.. with JA Extension Manager you will be able to upgrade much more easy when JA Social 1.7.x comes out!

Remember you can use JA T3 plugin for J1.7.x 😉

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Manos

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#408549

Is there any step by step guide to achieve that ourselves?

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[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#408552

Not really, you just use the JA Extension manager to update the JAT3 plugin and update Joomla as per the instructions on the Joomla.org documation. Please make 100% sure that you have a backup of your entire site (both the database and the files) before you start so if you do run into trouble you can quickly restore. Personally I would use Akeeba Backup to take a copy of my live site to my local host (I run WAMP for this) and then do the upgrade and testing on my local machine. If all goes well then I would once again use akeeba to restore my upgraded site to my host.

I have not tried JA Social myself with J1.7 so I will have to take pascm’s word for it that it works as expected. Please be aware though that we cannot support you on any problems you have running the J1.6 version on J1.7. When the J1.7 version is available we will provide full support for that.

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1. icbl

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#408553

Thanks 🙂 I think I will postpone again. I am asking myself that I should not have choosen this template :))

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#408559

Actually IMHO you should ask yourself if you should use the short term releases of Joomla rather than await for the LTS releases. J1.5 is Long Term Support with the next LTS being J1.8. J1.6 and J1.7 are only going to be supported for 6 months at a time so all users who choose to use these releases will face this problem every 6 months.

Having said that I am sure that JA Social will be upgraded soon. The transition from J1.6 to J1.7 is nowhere near the amount of work goning from J1.5 to J1.6 was. In addition JomSocial is being upgraded a lot faster so JA are not tied by that.

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1. TomC

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#408588

<em>@icbl 262621 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks 🙂 I think I will postpone again. I am asking myself that I should not have choosen this template :))</blockquote>

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#408590

I kept postponing my final deployment since 1.6, so I am not going to upgrade anything. I just wanna deploy the site and be prepared for the 1.8! At the moment 1.6 template have multiple issues which I cannot find answer either here or at the joomla forums.
I also going to buy a couple of plug ins which they have compatible with 1.6 or 1.7 only. Now I clearly now with sensible way that I have to use 1.7 or working condition of 1.6!

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