Templates on SB4?

[Jllynch]

Does SB 4 fully support all the templates from SB3? Also are there any new templates in SB4?

 

[Dmitry Frantsev]

Sitebuilder templates from v.3 are supported by new version 4. But it is strongly suggested to upgrade templates together with rest Sitebuilder packages as there were made a lot of corrections.

 

[Jllynch]

So if we upgrade the templates will the old ones be lost and will clients need to pick a new one? Or can both v3 and v4 templates exist on the same server? Or can we keep a select number of the old templates?

 

[Dmitry Frantsev]

Originally posted by Jllynch
So if we upgrade the templates will the old ones be lost and will clients need to pick a new one? Or can both v3 and v4 templates exist on the same server? Or can we keep a select number of the old templates?

During upgrade old templates will be rewritten with new ones. So both versions of templates could not exists on the same server. You can keep some of the old templates but we can not guarantee that it will work correctly, as new templates released for new version with some bugfixes. So in this case it is better to upgrade. To keep old templates you can move them to some different named directory, for example, /usr/local/sitebuilder/htdocs/templates/night_club-001/ to /usr/local/sitebuilder/htdocs/templates/night_club-111/
and correct <template id="night_club-001" in info.xml file, so Sitebuilder should recognize this templates as different one.