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If you have edited any files that sit on your web site, to give the look you desire, or the content you want (e.g. adding rain this month to this month page, or combining this month and this year page), see if the release notice says that file has been revised, if it has not then it is easy to keep your edited file by not copying in the replacement file from within the zip. If the release revises any file you previously edited, take a backup of your edited file, before you copy the new file into your folder. You can then use a file comparing tool to see what has changed in the release and what you changed and hopefully manage to merge to a new file that keeps any functionality change in a new release and keeps your customisation. | If you have edited any files that sit on your web site, to give the look you desire, or the content you want (e.g. adding rain this month to this month page, or combining this month and this year page), see if the release notice says that file has been revised, if it has not then it is easy to keep your edited file by not copying in the replacement file from within the zip. If the release revises any file you previously edited, take a backup of your edited file, before you copy the new file into your folder. You can then use a file comparing tool to see what has changed in the release and what you changed and hopefully manage to merge to a new file that keeps any functionality change in a new release and keeps your customisation. | ||
If you have done major customisation to the standard website then you probably have followed the guidance and stored your new web page templates in a different directory and you use '''Extra Files''' to specify where they are, so the new MX will still find them. | If you have done major customisation to the standard website then you probably have followed the guidance and stored your new web page templates in a different directory and you use '''Extra Files''' to specify where they are, so they cannot be overwritten and the new MX will still find them. | ||
If you have done any customisation to the '''interface''' (perhaps you don't like seeing solar in the tables when you don't measure that) then again you can skip over these files when copying. Hopefully you will have copies of the files that you have customised of the ''interface folder'' so you have ability to copy them back into installation if you do overwrite with the release version. You do have to be careful, as many releases change the interface in some way and all the various components of the interface have to work together as a coherent unit. For instance when feels like was added to MX, the api used for sending data from the MX engine to the admin interface was updated. In another release, all the navigation menus were adjusted. So files are interdependent. Be prepared to go back to the standard file for whatever you customised if something it depends upon has changed, after all you must not lose any vital functionality. | If you have done any customisation to the '''interface''' (perhaps you don't like seeing solar in the tables when you don't measure that) then again you can skip over these files when copying. Hopefully you will have copies of the files that you have customised of the ''interface folder'' so you have ability to copy them back into installation if you do overwrite with the release version. You do have to be careful, as many releases change the interface in some way and all the various components of the interface have to work together as a coherent unit. For instance when feels like was added to MX, the api used for sending data from the MX engine to the admin interface was updated. In another release, all the navigation menus were adjusted. So files are interdependent. Be prepared to go back to the standard file for whatever you customised if something it depends upon has changed, after all you must not lose any vital functionality. | ||
