I have been watching this discussion with interest, as we have been
running beta version of 6.3 on test boxes for a few months and are soon
to move our production server over.
I am even more interested as one of the authors of the "Staff Profile
Tool" mentioned by Willem :-)
I think we need to be careful of the terminology here - when does a
building block not work?
As far as I can tell, this block still runs fine on our 6.3 server (Java
1.5) as do all our other blocks. The only problem I have come across is
that the label for many tools in the Control Panel or Sys Admin Panel
displays incorrectly for many old blocks - this one included. Rather
than see "Staff Profile Tool" you get something like this:
"acme-staffP-nav-1.label". Note though that the tool still works if you
click on the link.
This is because the details of the bb-manifest file have now been
tightened up, andtext entries such as the tool label now need to have a
language specified, where they didn't in the past.
In the old version it was just:
<description>Staff Profile Tool</description>
Now there should be multiple entries specifying the language, e.g.
<description lang="en_UK">Staff Profile Tool</description>
I will be updating my tools in the catalogue soon - I am just finishing
local ones on our servers first!
Malcolm.
Dr Malcolm Murray
Durham University
Durham, UK
Valkenburg, Willem van wrote:
> I noticed it with the building block "Staff Profile Tool" and one that
> we developed ourselves.
>
> Regards,
>
> Willem
>
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> Onderwerp: Re: Did anyone upgrade to 6.3 already?
>
> Hi Willem
>
> Are these building blocks you have developped yourself or "well known,
> widely used?"
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Arts
> Project Manager ICT
> Universiteit Maastricht
> Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
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> "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when
> we created them."
> Albert Einstein
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Willem van
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> Subject: Re: Did anyone upgrade to 6.3 already?
>
>
> We have postponed the upgrade to the end of the year, because of the new
> version of Java. We have to test all the building blocks we use, I
> noticed on our development server that some building blocks don't work
> with the new version of Java.
>
> Regards,
>
> Willem
>
> ***********************************
> ir. W.F. van Valkenburg
> Delft University of Technology
> Dienst Technische Ondersteuning
> Systems for Education and Research
> Mekelweg 6 - LB 2.900
> 2628 CD Delft
> The Netherlands
> T +31 (0)15 27 86825
> F +31 (0)15 27 86359
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> Verzonden: vrijdag 8 juli 2005 9:16
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> Onderwerp: Did anyone upgrade to 6.3 already?
>
> Hi
>
> Did any of you already upgrade to 6.3? (in production or on a test
> server)
>
> Did you have any problems?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Arts
> Project Manager ICT
> Universiteit Maastricht
> Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
> Marketing Department
> Tongersestraat 53 Maastricht
> Room 1.013B
> T: 043-3883659
> F: 043-3884918
> E: [log in to unmask]
> I: www.marketingsite.nl
>
> "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when
> we created them." Albert Einstein
>
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