TS Upgrade from 4.5.1 (Solaris)

I'm putting together a document outlining the pros, cons, and conversion plans for upgrading our TS4.5.1 installation to either 5.0 or 5.5 (including DataDeploy). I thought it might be nice to have a forum thread that discusses good and bad experiences going through this process.

Any thoughts?

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Migrateduser

For me, the three biggest benefits of 5.x over 4.5 are:

1 - Templating has a better and more flexible interface, including the ability to do some cross field validation/manipulation in javascript which reduces the need to use callouts.

2 - OD has scheduled deployment built in, so you no longer need to develop a fairly complex workflow to accomplish this.

3 - The new Webdesk interface for authors is a bit more attractive, and easier for them to use.

Migrateduser

With 5.52 there is the new multistore functionality, a new backing store architecture which vastly improves performance and scalability, there is a far greater degree of globalization and localization, tighter integration with ldap/Active Directory, SSO (with netegrity), ability to configure an email-based workflow(this is great!), SSL (also available wiith 5.0.x)

Migrateduser

The workflow based email isn't that great. It could be a lot better. When our rep presented this to us, he claimed people who weren't TeamSite members could receive emails and approve/reject directly through the email link, without ever needing to enter TeamSite. However this is not the case. You still need to be a TeamSite member and it also pops up extra windows, which isn't very attractive. Seems like it should be easy enough to implement a link from an email that will activate a successor of a task without the person clicking the link to have to worry about TeamSite at all.

Dave Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Nike, Inc.
(503) 671-4238
DavidH.Smith@nike.com

Migrateduser

Does this mean that one can finally present dates in the main interface in other than US format? When I was working in Europe, that particular bit of American cultural imperialism gave me fits.