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?
To activate in all ERP sites, use initdb to run
update pxskins set xlogin='caerp', xmenupage='1' where xskin='ERP'
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