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Jody Gibbs
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October 2, 2015 at 4:44 pm
Hello,
My website currently has two open events in EE3, and I just purchased EE4. I need to start building our conference registration in EE4 but don’t want to install it yet because I am not sure what will happen to my open events (one closes Oct. 9 and the other closes Oct. 16th). What is the best way to proceed?
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Tony
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October 5, 2015 at 5:57 am
Hi Jody,
Your open events should continue to run within EE4, however EE4 is a very different system to EE3 and depending on how your event registration is setup on the front end may it may need additional work to move over to EE4.
Usually the swap from EE3 to EE4 is fairly straight forward however we recommend performing the update on a development copy of the site first to check it all works as expected.
Do you have a development site? This would be a copy of the site as it is currently that is away from view of your visitors.
At the very least before making any changes to the site make a full site backup (all files and the database).
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Jody Gibbs
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October 5, 2015 at 10:53 am
Thanks Tony! Do you know what “additional work” may be required on the front end if I don’t go the development site route? Is there a tutorial or FAQ sheet that will help me adjust the 2 open events once they are upgraded to EE4?
Using a development site will be a pain because I am adding new members and updating their info on our website all the time- and I was planning on taking a couple weeks to figure out and set up conference registration. So if we wait until Oct. 16th to move EE4 to the live server, there will be lots of little website updates to make.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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October 5, 2015 at 11:40 am
Hi Jody,
You’ll be prompted to migrate your information (e.g. events, venues, attendees/registrants, etc) when Event Espresso 4 is activated.
https://eventespresso.com/wiki/updating-event-espresso/#ee4
Things that are not migrated would be any custom coding for templates that may be in place. Custom email messages are not migrated either as the new messages system in Event Espresso 4 handles notifications.
You could setup a site on our demo site here to try out Event Espresso 4:
http://demoee.org
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Lorenzo
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Jody Gibbs
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October 5, 2015 at 2:05 pm
Ok, so are logos and event descriptions considered custom coding too?
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Tony
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October 5, 2015 at 2:19 pm
Do you know what “additional work” may be required on the front end if I don’t go the development site route?
It all depends on how you are currently displaying the events. Have you modified the EE templates at all or are you using the default output?
Its not a simple question to answer because there are so many different ways users output the events.
Ok, so are logos and event descriptions considered custom coding too?
Added within the Event Espresso admin and output using the default templates? If so then no.
EE4 uses your theme to output the events where as EE3 used completely independent templates. So it also depends on how your theme works, generally speak you should have very few issues when updating, but we always recommend running the migrations on staging first to be sure.
You could setup a temporary dev site, run the migrations there, check for issues and ensure the events continue to work. Then if no issues are found just run the migrations on the live site after that, at least then if you do have issues you will know how to fix them on the live site already.
I’m not trying to scare you away from EE4, its is a better system than EE3. But we can not say 100% there will be no issues due to many different factors, although we do try make sure there are as little as possible (and very often none at all)
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Jody Gibbs
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October 5, 2015 at 3:17 pm
Ok thanks. What about the RSVP links to the EE3 events that I distributed to our members? Will those links still work once EE4 is installed?
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Jonathan Wilson
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October 5, 2015 at 3:23 pm
Hi Jody,
You should not lose any of your event data after you have run the migration. Of course, be sure the do a backup of your site before updating to EE4.
The links that you sent out may have /event-registration/ as the slug, so you may need to change the slug under Event Espresso > Events > the Templates tab, where it says, “Event Slug”.
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