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[romello Friend romelloJoin date: February 2008Posts: 68Downloads:16Uploads:0 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 6 times in 1 posts]

#197288

Hello,

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

[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#533169

ALWAYS 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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1. romello

[romello Friend romelloJoin date: February 2008Posts: 68Downloads:16Uploads:0 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 6 times in 1 posts]

#533171

Hi 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.

Thank you

[romello Friend romelloJoin date: February 2008Posts: 68Downloads:16Uploads:0 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 6 times in 1 posts]

#536859

Hello 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

[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#536894

ALWAYS 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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