Jul 31st, 2011, 9:12 AM
Hey Alex,
Nah! Upgrading your theme shouldn't be too much work - but it all depends on how much modification you did in the first place. Personally, I found updating the Deep Blue & Classic Grey themes surprisingly little work - and they're pretty custom, compared to the default theme.
One quick tip. When it comes to updating your theme, don't try tweaking what you already had - the new templates are too different. Instead, make a new copy of the /default theme, delete the /admin and /client folders and modify that. When you delete those two folders, Form Tools will automatically all of the missing files from the default theme - and you shouldn't really ever need to override individual files: the important styles and templates are outside of those files. This has the added benefit of making your theme more likely to be consistent with upgrades to the default templates.
Yes... but to be totally clear: the Core date fields (Submission Date & Last Modified Date) are unchanged (not any custom date form field that you may have defined).
Let me know if you have any questions!
- Ben
Nah! Upgrading your theme shouldn't be too much work - but it all depends on how much modification you did in the first place. Personally, I found updating the Deep Blue & Classic Grey themes surprisingly little work - and they're pretty custom, compared to the default theme.
One quick tip. When it comes to updating your theme, don't try tweaking what you already had - the new templates are too different. Instead, make a new copy of the /default theme, delete the /admin and /client folders and modify that. When you delete those two folders, Form Tools will automatically all of the missing files from the default theme - and you shouldn't really ever need to override individual files: the important styles and templates are outside of those files. This has the added benefit of making your theme more likely to be consistent with upgrades to the default templates.
Quote:One question though, so I understand it right.. the date field still stores the date data in mysql the same way right? I am pulling the dates from the database on a webpage and re-writing the format the way I want it to display. I'm guessing that will still work right?
Yes... but to be totally clear: the Core date fields (Submission Date & Last Modified Date) are unchanged (not any custom date form field that you may have defined).
Let me know if you have any questions!
- Ben