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May 1, 2014 at 4:56 pm #197288Hello,
There seems to be a new version of Ja Hawkstore and I’m trying to decide if it is wise to update and also trying to understand if I will lose data with the update.
1. Our Hacks
A. Virtuemart – we’ve created two new positions – but we used vm template overrides for both of these.
B. We made small design changes but we did this by creating a new theme with the template manager > Theme magic.
2. Template upgrade
Are we safe to just back up … and choose the update option in JA Extensions manager?
Will all other programming and configurations be saved?
What are the steps to manually upgrade?Please advise
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May 1, 2014 at 5:00 pm #533169ALWAYS back-up your entire site – and databases – when preparing to update/upgrade anything.
As for updating the template . . . definitely create a full back-up, and then give it a shot. As you identified, you are likely going to have to re-establish some of your custom hacks and CSS – unless you had already created a custom.css file with CSS modifications within … in which case all you need do is put that custom.css back into the correct file path.
Make Sense?
Also, you may want to read through the following tutorial – UNDERSTANDING TEMPLATE OVERRIDES in JOOMLA
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May 1, 2014 at 5:16 pm #533171Hi Tom,
Hmmm Ok… If I understand correctly it sounds like the answer is YES we will lose data. Ok I’ll review the template override documentation that you’ve provided.
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May 27, 2014 at 5:58 pm #536859Hello Tom,
If you’re still available for this post…. please direct me to the documentation or instructions for upgrading
Ja Hawkstore… I think I have one of the first beta issues. And there are problems that have been fixed
with newer versions.Thanks,
Romello
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May 27, 2014 at 9:29 pm #536894ALWAYS back-up your entire site – and databases – when preparing to update/upgrade anything.
You can then update your template via the EXTENSION MANAGER
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