Help / Advice needed with upgrade

[courtney]

I have inherited a client running a highly customized version 2.1 Preview Release of the exchange project. He would now like to upgrade to the newest version to get the additional functionality. He has had his GUI completely customized and some functionality changed. If I upgrade him to 2.2 will all of this be lost, ie - does the installation of 2.2 completely replace the code base?

 

I assume that there is no danger of losing data from the database?

 

Thanks,

Courtney

[dvdvideo]

I have just finished upgrading from 2.2 14th dec 2002 to MS2

What a job that was!

 

You will need to get some tools for the job ... EMS MySQL manager and compare is what I used. Download the trial versions ... it will give you enough time to do the upgrade on demo.

I also used BeyondCompare to see differences in the exported sql files from the original database.

 

you will need to move a few columns and be careful to get the data correct... one to look out for is the way address book id works in MS2 compared to earlier versions.... it had me stumped until I added a new customer and compared the new data input with the old.

 

Good luck...