7.0.2 Upgrade Questions for Entire AC Community

[combra]

Hi All,

I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread about those that have upgraded from 7.0.x to 7.0.2 recently, so that others, including myself could learn about the process.

1) From start to finish, how long did the upgrade install take you?
2) If you had to do the upgrade again, what would you have done differently?
3) What information do you wish you had known before you did the upgrade?
4) Did you have to go line by line to merge the changes in your custom conlibs and custom scriplets?
5) Did you do the upgrade following Sohaib's post viewtopic.php?f=47&t=10082or another method?

I'm sure others will have best practices questions as well.

I know 7.0.2 is a significant upgrade, so I'm sure any input with be very helpful to me as well as many others that are thinking about upgrading to 7.0.2.

Thanks for your time.

-Brandon

[jmestep]

I've already given you some input on this, but I am wanting to try Sohaib's method before I do another upgrade.
It took many hours and there were some surprises even though the site was new and other than design changes only had one big shipping customization. The surprise there was that the checkout flow changed so that the new shipping method page came up with no customizations.
I started integrating the new Able code into my older customized code, but soon found out that was not going to work because of some of the functionality changes. I ended up going through the customized conlibs with BeyondCompare and putting my custom code into the new conlibs and moving them to the custom folder. There were a few things I had customized in some conlibs that couldn't be moved to the custom folder.
I think if I had been working with files from an earlier build but all the files except the customized ones had the same date, it would have been easier to compare- I would have only looked at the ones with the changed date. As it was, I had to determine if the changed date was because of a customization or if it was from a previous upgrade.

[compunerdy]

Upgrade was easy and did not take long at all.

What is a pain is going through and adding in all the little code sniplets from the "Good Reference Posts" and "feature requests" sections that for some reason are not getting added on as standard features!!!

Option to delete orders
Option to change page title
Option to be notified when there are reviews to manage
Option to be able to edit tracking numbers
Option to not show manufacturer names
Option to change shipping options from dropdown to bullet list

etc, etc....

[Robbie@FireFold]

I am waiting on Sohaib's graphic tutorial before we even try.

FireFold is toooooooooo modded.

[heinscott]

I would highly recommend Beyond Compare. I think I would still be working on the upgrade right now if not for that beautiful program!

[Robbie@FireFold]

Downloaded. That will help!

[compunerdy]

I use that as well..works nice.

[AbleMods]

Damn now I have to download it

....can't have all you guys hogging all the cool tools.

[Robbie@FireFold]

Yeah like the adwords editor!

[William_firefold]

We finally got to a point where I can say that we upgraded successfully.
We tried the code integration method that Sohaib posted with no success. We had just made too many changes.

The method that worked best for us was to start fresh with a clean full install of 7.02.
From there, we copied our theme over which changed most of the style on the site.
Scriptlets, product images, and custom conlibs added next to fix layout and missing conlib errors.
After that I believe all that is left is to use the live site as a guide to rebuild the ascx files.

This time we are making a record of changes in case we should have to integrate in the future.