Installing the New User Interface

As there were no major complaints against the new user interface, we decided to make the new user interface as the standard one after upgrade to 5.6. The older user interface will be referred to as the Legacy UI.

Upgrading to 5.6

Upgrade the installation downloading and extracting 2-html.zip and 3-WEB-INF.zip from the repository

Restart Tomcat and Upgrade All Tables using initdb.

Activating the New UI

Log In and go to System Administration→Portals→Skins tab:
Select ERP skin, change the followings and Update

Change Login Process to caerp

Activate Show Menus on Page?

Totally log out, go back to directory and login back

Retaining the Legacy UI

Log In and go to System Administration→Portals

Sites tab: Select ERP site - change the Home page to cahome_legacy and Update

Skins tab: Select ERP skin - change the followings and Update

Change Template to html/defaults/ERP_legacy.html

Change Stylesheet to html/defaults/ERP_legacy.css

Deactivate Show Menus on Page?, if it's Activated

Totally log out, go back to directory and login back