Hi

I have been going through what is needed for moving to v5. I understand customisations and themes will be removed. I have a few questions before I raise a ticket for the upgrade.

You say customisations will be removed. Will Pages app pages, blocks, and templates be removed or rendered inoperable?

I assume themes will be removed. Is there any way to prepare for the switchover to v5 to minimise the time that my community will be default-themed?

What about language translations? How will they be affected? I am guessing download to preserve existing content.

Is there a dummy v5 community for admins to go to to help familiarise ourselves before we switch?

Cheers

John

1 hour ago, Songstuff said:

You say customisations will be removed. Will Pages app pages, blocks, and templates be removed or rendered inoperable?

Pages will stay, but any custom templates may not work correctly and need to be changed to work. Any themes themselves will have their templates completely reverted to default

1 hour ago, Songstuff said:

I assume themes will be removed. Is there any way to prepare for the switchover to v5 to minimise the time that my community will be default-themed?

The only way would be to have a site set up for this purpose, so you can create a theme you can export. Send in a ticket if you need this doing and we can take a look at what we can do for you.

1 hour ago, Songstuff said:

What about language translations? How will they be affected? I am guessing download to preserve existing content.

Those will be retained, but they would very much need going through to ensure things are compatible

1 hour ago, Marc said:

but any custom templates may not work correctly and need to be changed to work

Thanks Marc.... JavaScript and CSS added in Pages templates will still be there, and any HTML in Pages blocks will be retained... but I will need to confirm it all works as expected. That is good, thanks.

1 hour ago, Marc said:

The only way would be to have a site set up for this purpose, so you can create a theme you can export. Send in a ticket if you need this doing and we can take a look at what we can do for you.

Would there be an associated cost?

2 hours ago, Marc said:

Those will be retained, but they would very much need going through to ensure things are compatible

Great, many thanks. A difference filter would be handy (I don't know if that is already there?)

16 minutes ago, Songstuff said:

Would there be an associated cost?

Please reach out in a ticket and we can take a look for you