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gcrews May 23, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Reply to: What happens to customizations if you reinstall or update XMetaL?
May 23, 2011 at 9:45 pmIt’s probably best to have some deployment method, that’s what I have done for us. I have a script that updated everything. CSS files, dll update, custom print xml file, print_local settings, js files, macros, ctm files, templates, ct_config file, and all the toolkit changes and customizations. Reinstalling the same exact version is no problem for us. Going to a newer version though takes me about a week to fully check everything, make sure any files that are customized don’t have new changes, ect… The longest part is merging the toolkit.
There are lots of customized code and xls that I have created for our needs. I try my hardest to keep my changes in plugins but sometimes you have to make changes directly. Also sometimes to make a small change to a xsl template, you have to usably copy the entire template to the plugin, sometimes 100’s of lines of code just to make a small change. When the toolkit gets updated eventually I’m going to either have to start from scratch or check every custom line of code I have create in plugins and compare the templates I have copied.
