CheersnGears Posted December 18, 2014 Posted December 18, 2014 When we upgrade our existing 3.4.x sites to 4.0, will existing fields in our databases be preserved? The reason I ask is because I notice in the articles system inside of Pages 4.0, the Teaser Paragraph field seems to be absent. I use this field often on my site and don't want to lose it. I've also added a few other fields to my default articles database that I would like to have preserved. I don't mind having to redo my blocks and pages, but I do want to keep the data in those fields.
ABGenc Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 Realising that Teaser Paragraph's absense was sad. Any idea what will happen to those articles who have teaser paragraphs ?
CheersnGears Posted February 9, 2015 Author Posted February 9, 2015 Realising that Teaser Paragraph's absense was sad. Any idea what will happen to those articles who have teaser paragraphs ?yes, we use that field in every article. I need to know where that goes during an upgrade
ABGenc Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 That was very useful for article feeds. At least you could show a brief of what is inside instead of a cut text after some characters.
CheersnGears Posted February 9, 2015 Author Posted February 9, 2015 That was very useful for article feeds. At least you could show a brief of what is inside instead of a cut text after some characters.We use it for that. We also use it in our metadata to send a clip to twitter cards and blurbs for Facebook.
opentype Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 That was very useful for article feeds. At least you could show a brief of what is inside instead of a cut text after some characters.You can just set up a teaser field in one minute. It not a “special” field, just a text area field. But I agree to the upgrade problems. That doesn’t really seem well-thought-out yet. There are even field types missing, e.g. the database relational fields. I also haven’t seen any confirmation that the standard article thumbnail images will automatically end up in the new record image field. Anyone knows?
CheersnGears Posted February 9, 2015 Author Posted February 9, 2015 You can just set up a teaser field in one minute. It not a “special” field, just a text area field. But I agree to the upgrade problems. That doesn’t really seem well-thought-out yet. There are even field types missing, e.g. the database relational fields. I also haven’t seen any confirmation that the standard article thumbnail images will automatically end up in the new record image field. Anyone knows?Oh I know it's easy to set up, and that would be fine if I was starting a 4.0 site from scratch... but I want to know what is going to happen when I upgrade multiple years' worth of IP Content 3.4.7 database to 4.0. Where does that data go?
ABGenc Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 You can just set up a teaser field in one minute. It not a “special” field, just a text area field. But I agree to the upgrade problems. That doesn’t really seem well-thought-out yet. There are even field types missing, e.g. the database relational fields. I also haven’t seen any confirmation that the standard article thumbnail images will automatically end up in the new record image field. Anyone knows?You know Ralf it was you who had shown me how the thumbnail image could be enabled. It is still unknown ( to me at least ) if the upgrade will both enable that property and convert the old article images to the new one. The same question is also valid for teaser paragraph as well.I plan to do a few upgrades in a test site before trying it on production..
CheersnGears Posted February 13, 2015 Author Posted February 13, 2015 Would be really nice if an IPS person could pop in and answer these couple questions. @Charles ?
ABGenc Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 Would be really nice if an IPS person could pop in and answer these couple questions. @Charles ?Not mentioned properly ?@Charles can you comment on this ?
CheersnGears Posted February 13, 2015 Author Posted February 13, 2015 @Charles .... what am I doing wrong with mentions? I thought I just type the @ and the name.?
ABGenc Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 You should not use capital in first letter. ( I dont know the reason though..)
Ahmad E. Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 @Charles .... what am I doing wrong with mentions? I thought I just type the @ and the name.? You need to wait for the dropdown to appear and select the member you want to mention:
CheersnGears Posted February 13, 2015 Author Posted February 13, 2015 Well that's silly....You should not use capital in first letter. ( I dont know the reason though..)Though, I can't even load @charles' profile... I get an EX0 error. ... and even using lower case I still can't mention him.
Ahmad E. Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 Well that's silly....Though, I can't even load @charles' profile... I get an EX0 error. ... and even using lower case I still can't mention him.Yep there's a bug http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/407211-2-error-not-found-pages-with-android/
CheersnGears Posted February 13, 2015 Author Posted February 13, 2015 Ah... there we go... @CharlesI wonder if the delay to dropdown is something we can adjust. That seems a bit longer than most people are used to if they are big facebook users.
ABGenc Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 Ah... there we go... @CharlesI wonder if the delay to dropdown is something we can adjust. That seems a bit longer than most people are used to if they are big facebook users. I think it searchs all the members of the community . If it had an option be limited to friends, followed or some other filters it can be faster I guess..
ABGenc Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 Would be really nice if an IPS person could pop in and answer these couple questions. @Charles ?Voices unheard or too busy to answer..
CheersnGears Posted February 15, 2015 Author Posted February 15, 2015 Voices unheard or too busy to answer..Well it was also friday afternoon....
craigf136 Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 If you want to type @craigf136 then it should know that is the members username and parse the information. The @mention hook I currently have installed can do this easily, it knows it's a members name and assigns it accordingly.I think the addition of the drop down is extremely useful but I'm unsure as to whether it is affecting typing @ then members name - it needs a slight tweak imo.
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