Can I move my community into 5?

[Manuel Molina]

Would appreciate feedback. I would like to move into the new version so I can relaunch it. Thanks

[Marc]

If you have a look at the page here, this explains what can/cant be done for different platforms 🙂 Of course, if you have any other questions, please let us know

https://invisioncommunity.com/clubs/page/3-beta-information/

 

[Gary]

Hi @Manuel Molina,

I launched my community on the very first beta of v5 after converting from 4.7.x (I can't remember exactly which version I upgraded from). Despite running into a few minor issues that didn't render my community inaccessible, it has since worked flawlessly. There are definitely instances where people have upgraded and ran into some more serious issues though.

Are you relaunching an already established community (as in, you currently have a lot of members, topics, posts, articles, pages, etc), or will you be launching a brand-new community? If the latter, then there is less risk (not no risk), but there is always a chance something can break with beta versions of software as Marc has outlined. At the very least, BACK UP your existing community files and database/s in case you run into any issues and perhaps test the upgrade to v5 on a test install first.

The last thing you would want to do is lose content. There is no undo or back button when upgrading Invision Community.