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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

  1. Upgrade the installation downloading and extracting 2-html.zip and 3-WEB-INF.zip from the repository
  2. Restart Tomcat and Upgrade All Tables using initdb.

Activating the New UI

  1. Log In and go to System Administration→Portals→Skins tab:
    Select ERP skin, change the followings and Update
    1. Change Login Process to caerp
    2. Activate Show Menus on Page?
    3. To activate in all ERP sites, use initdb to run
      update pxskins set xlogin='caerp', xmenupage='1' where xskin='ERP'
  2. Totally log out, go back to directory and login back

Retaining the Legacy UI

  1. Log In and go to System Administration→Portals
    1. Sites tab: Select ERP site - change the Home page to cahome_legacy and Update
    2. Skins tab: Select ERP skin - change the followings and Update
      1. Change Template to html/defaults/ERP_legacy.html
      2. Change Stylesheet to html/defaults/ERP_legacy.css
      3. Deactivate Show Menus on Page?, if it's Activated
  2. Totally log out, go back to directory and login back