Upgrade from 5.5.* to 6

alanhill

Hi,

My company is in the process of planning a move from Teamsite 5.5.* to 6. My department maintain the templates and as such we need to plan in regression testing etc.

I have a few questions regarding the upgrade:

1. Is TS6 backwards compatible with TS5.5.* templates?
2. What problems have people encountered when upgrading?

We have a strange version of Teamsite - 5.5.1, which I don't believe too many people have.

If anyone has any stories, hints, helpful tips, case studies etc, please get in touch.

Cheers

Adam Stoller

The DCTs should work as is I believe - though the appearance may be a bit different than what you're currently used to. If you decide to use the latest version of the DCT DTD - you'll probably have to modify yrour DCTs since 'replicants' don't exist as such (replaced by min/max values on conainers and/or individual items)

The PTs should work just fine without any need for change (unless you change the DCTs)

The templating.cfg may need to be re-worked though (to handle restriction of where templates actually exist since that's no longer done at the file system level) - plus you can make use of some of the new features of the templating.cfg to control things like which buttons (save, save-as, generate, preview, etc) show up and also whether or not the left-hand navigation section shows up.

I'm in the process of a medium-to-long term transition (from 552SP2b) and templating has generally been less of a problem than most ofther things (CGIs - especially with respect to metadata capture callouts are more problematical)

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com