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- ciredrallop
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I purchased Magento Kinetic around March of this year. I am planning to update to 1.6. I see there is a new 1.6 version. What were the changes from the version I have up to 1.6? Is it a required update to work?
Is it basically $110 to get the upgrade?
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- Sam Mahoney
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If you got the theme in March I guess it was for Magento 1.4.2? If so, there's quite a few changes between that and the 1.6 version - so it's not compatible.
As you're not currently a member of any RT club, you'd need to sign up for the standard 30 day membership to get the latest Kinetic - that's $90 - www.rockettheme.com/join-a-club?club=magento,devmagento - STEP 1 IN MAGENTO DEVELOPMENT - DISABLE YOUR CACHE OR YOU WON'T SEE ANY CHANGES.
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- ciredrallop
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It seems to want to charge me $110. Is there a way to get the $90 upgrade? I know you probably have members that have been around for years. This will be the third or fourth time I have purchased a membership in the last 4 years. Maybe a break or coupon code?
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- Sam Mahoney
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- You'll need to email support for that, I don't have anything to do with memberships or anything - www.rockettheme.com/contact-us
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- ciredrallop
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- I purchased the membership to get the upgrade. I'm looking at the changelog now since it isn't accessible without a membership. Are any of these updates really relative to the function of the site or mostly just added features? I started with version 1.5.0.1. Is that version actually not compatible with 1.6? Or is this 1.6 upgrade just for adding some better features and improving existing features?
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- Sam Mahoney
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- It adds/improves some existing features, but there were also a few changes to core functions, in particular (if I remember correctly) regarding the "add to cart" functionality, so the 1.5 version isn't compatible.
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- ciredrallop
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Can you look into this for specific changes? I purchased the upgrade, but we can't find anything that really needs upgrading. Mostly file structure changes that we had mostly already made. I see these changes:
1. Updated jquery to 1.6.2
2. Updated to jquery tools 1.2.5
3. CategoryView/HomepageGrid - Changed from fadeOut to animate opacity to work with latest jquery
4. Removed duplicate template and layout files that are now stored in the base folder.
5. MageMenus - Added support for megamenu and sidebar category tree menu
1. Anything more specific here?
2. Anything more specific?
3. We don't use the categoryview/homepagegrid feature.
4. Our file structure is way different than the original so that's not a problem.
5. We don't use the original menus. We use part of the left menu, but mostly not. Definitely no issues with the left menu.
Please help us on this. If we kept the theme with the original file structure, original features, etc., then we would just overwrite everything. We made a lot of improvements though and this list of upgrades doesn't look like it is worth the effort. We need more insight and more information to clarify this.
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- Sam Mahoney
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From what you've said above, it looks like your main concern is the jQuery stuff.
jQuery was updated to the latest version to fix a conflict in IE8 with the new version of Prototype they included in Magento 1.6. Without that, all the jQuery scripts broke in IE8 so all our extensions stopped functioning. To update to the latest jQuery we also had to update the versions of jQuery Tools we use to the latest, and fix some other scripts.
So, I guess you wouldn't have customized any of the js files, so replacing those with the latest should be fine. They can all be found in the base folder - but you will also have them in your kinetic folder too, so if you're leaving those there, update those versions. So all the js files in skin/frontend/kinetic/default/rokmage-....
The files are listed in the changelog under the base folder, but like I said, if you're not removing them from the kinetic folder, update those versions:
^ skin/frontend/base/default/rokmage-main-js/jquery.min.js
^ skin/frontend/base/default/rokmage-modalheader/js/modal-header-scripts-IE6.js
^ skin/frontend/base/default/rokmage-modalheader/js/modal-header-scripts-IE7.js
^ skin/frontend/base/default/rokmage-modalheader/js/modal-header-scripts.js
^ skin/frontend/base/default/rokmage-productscroller/js/tools.tooltip.min.js
^ skin/frontend/base/default/rokmage-contentslider/js/tools.tabs.min.js
The template files listed in the changelog had specific jQuery functions that needed fixing to work with the latest version, so they will need updating also, again your kinetic versions if not removing:
^ app/design/frontend/base/default/template/rokmagemodules/rokmage-contentslider/rokmage-content-slider.phtml
^ app/design/frontend/base/default/template/rokmagemodules/rokmage-homepagegrid/rokmage-homepage-grid.phtml
^ app/design/frontend/base/default/template/rokmagemodules/rokmage-categoryview/rokmage-categoryview.phtml
^ app/design/frontend/base/default/template/rokmagemodules/rokmage-modalheader/rokmage-modal-login.phtml
It will also be safe to update the extension core files, in app/code/community/Rockettheme. You'll also want to update the Mage folder in app/code/community/ as the files in there were also updated. - STEP 1 IN MAGENTO DEVELOPMENT - DISABLE YOUR CACHE OR YOU WON'T SEE ANY CHANGES.
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- Sam Mahoney
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- If you have any problems with anything, post in the main Magento forum to be sure I see it.
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