Comment: yacs 8.4: user profiles, group messages, tabs, overlays
I've upgraded to the 8.5beta10. Whew - I was going from an old YACS 7.6.3!!!
IT WORKS! It took a lot of investigations to some things working right.
One thing I can tell you that will help: Derive a new skin from one of the updated skins and transfer all of your various settings over, bit by bit, piece by piece.
I couldn't get the tabs working for the life of me, but I did that and I was on my way.
The biggest problem I had was something I had added to my CSS -- a custom "Please Wait" style. I thinkI have instructions here on http://yetnothercommunityserver.com on adding a few lines to the head of your CSS. Take that out and you'll have a better shot at getting the new tabs working.
Oh! Also, make sure you "Add basic items -- in case you would need to replay some steps of the setup process" from the Content Assistant. That is probably what was causing me the most grief as there were sections that I needed that I didn't have after the upgrade. This put them in for me.
Apparently, I had never fully upgraded to yacs 7.6.3 because a lot of the functionality should have been in there already by that version.
But it CAN be done. Go to http://free.naplesplus.us and see! I've been changing all of the sections over to have a view_as_thread as the comments functionality is greatly improved by giving it a chat interface. It will be something new for the people on my site to get used to, but they'll get used to it.
Some things are still weird, but it's getting better all of the time. Kenneth udut
IT WORKS! It took a lot of investigations to some things working right.
One thing I can tell you that will help: Derive a new skin from one of the updated skins and transfer all of your various settings over, bit by bit, piece by piece.
I couldn't get the tabs working for the life of me, but I did that and I was on my way.
The biggest problem I had was something I had added to my CSS -- a custom "Please Wait" style. I thinkI have instructions here on http://yetnothercommunityserver.com on adding a few lines to the head of your CSS. Take that out and you'll have a better shot at getting the new tabs working.
Oh! Also, make sure you "Add basic items -- in case you would need to replay some steps of the setup process" from the Content Assistant. That is probably what was causing me the most grief as there were sections that I needed that I didn't have after the upgrade. This put them in for me.
Apparently, I had never fully upgraded to yacs 7.6.3 because a lot of the functionality should have been in there already by that version.
But it CAN be done. Go to http://free.naplesplus.us and see! I've been changing all of the sections over to have a view_as_thread as the comments functionality is greatly improved by giving it a chat interface. It will be something new for the people on my site to get used to, but they'll get used to it.
Some things are still weird, but it's getting better all of the time. Kenneth udut
by Simplify3 on June 29
