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== After an update if you use the standard web template files == | == After an update if you use the standard web template files == | ||
=== web folder from zip === | |||
The new web template files will be in your '''web''' folder and MX will process the new files and upload the web pages produced as before with no further action by you. | The new web template files will be in your '''web''' folder and MX will process the new files and upload the web pages produced as before with no further action by you. | ||
=== webfiles folder from zip === | |||
You do need a further action, if any files in this folder have been updated. The updated files must be uploaded to your web site. | |||
This may be easy to forget if you use the standard web templates, because you thought that upload was a one-off and maybe you cannot remember what you did. | |||
Certain third-party web-pages still use files from that folder, if one of the files they use has been updated, then ensure you have a backup of your web site before you upload the updated file, it should work, but it might not, and you might need to regress. | |||
Let me go through the files currently in webfiles folder: | |||
*'''weatherstyle.css''' has not been updated since its last update by Steve Loft in 2009. | |||
*subfolder '''images''' contains 2 pictures that have stayed same since MX launch | |||
*subfolder '''js''' contains one file. The file '''\CumulusMX\webfiles\js\cumuluscharts.js''' has changed in a lot of releases. The standard web page '''trends.htm''' will only work if the correct version of that file has been uploaded to your web site and placed in a sub-folder "js" of where "trends.htm" is installed. BCJKiwi's user interface '''charts.php''' also requires the same JavaScript file, so upload the file anytime it is updated in a MX release. | |||
*subfolder '''lib''' currently contains 3 folders: | |||
**'''highstock''' - this folder is no longer needed on your web site | |||
**'''jquery''' - this folder is needed for "trends,htm" to work, but it has not been updated since 2014. Both the files included are obsolete packages, no longer officially available, and there are no plans to replace them. | |||
**'''steelseries''' - this folder has 3 sub-folders, and I can only think of 2 MX releases when anything was changed here, and I don't anticipate any further changes. | |||
The other files in the webfiles folder have either never been updated or only rarely updated, but be prepared to upload them as well. | The other files in the webfiles folder have either never been updated or only rarely updated, but be prepared to upload them as well. | ||