I've been spending hour after hour trying to get the latest vbulletin upgrade ready, plus working on a procedure that will make it go by much smoother and quickly in the future. I've updated the test forum several times as kind of a dry run before I upgrade the production forum. I've got the procedure down so I can modify all the templates in the test forum and then transfer them to the production forum once I know everything is working. This should minimize the forum downtime to about 30 minutes rather than a full day. However, there is a problem with one of the templates that I just can't seem to solve. The prefix feature is causing all sorts of headaches. It requires manual edits to about 10 templates. I backout all the prefix edits, then add the vbulletin and style edits, then I add the prefix edits back to the file. But the the forum page is looking funny when I finally get this finished. I've gone through this process twice with the same result each time. These manual edits are a killer when its time to upgrade.
09-05-2007 01:12 AM 
