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Latest post by CameronIDM on Friday, 29 September 2023 19:21 EEST
Hello - Are currently running 1.8.9 of Norr Competition. We love the product and continuously have contests running. Can I upgrade to NorrCompetition 2 while I have competitions running or do I need to wait and schedule it so that no competitions are on? (Because our competitions tend to overlap.)
Note - we are still using Joomla 3, but are in the process of migrating to Joomla 4 using the MM4 tool and will upgraded php once migration has taken place.
Thank you -
Cameron
Hi Cameron,
Thanks for your message. Actually, I think it's better to wait when the current contest will be finished and no new voting can be scored to avoid a force majeure situation when something suddenly went wrong and you have no time neither to fix the issue nor a guarantee of votings' consistency (restoring the backup will lead to loosing votes that were made after the backup was made and before the migration).
I would advice you to make copy of the existing site (Joomla 3/NorrCompetition 1.8) and run it on development environment for testing purposes. You can check out everything and see how to configure the new Joomla template and etc.
Also note that NorrCompetition 2.0 comes with new and the only theme and if there were template overrides that you made, it all will be lost.
Then, if everything is ok, you can wait the finish of existing open contest and repeat the migration.
Best regards,
Eugene
Thank you Eugene -
We will hold off until November 1st then. I appreciate the confirmation.
Cameron