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Thank you so much. That makes a lot more sense. I did think the version we were using was outdated but, having read on here that updating can be quite tricky I thought I’d leave it until I had been on the course and gained a little more confidence (I’ve already wiped out half the info on the front page ).

I’ll have a go with adding the html that you’ve suggested and let you know how I get on.

Thanks again for taking the time to answer so promptly AND for making the response so simple that even I can understand it.

Upgrading is not at all tricky. Download new version, unzip it, upload files to your site. Run yoursite.com/install, and select "Upgrade" (actually it will already be selected for you).

With such an old version, you may need to tweak some of your snippet calls a bit. But that’s what we’re here for.

Of course, backup first. But I’ve worked with MODx since it was just the extensions to Etomite, and have upgraded probably close to 100 times without ever having any problems at all.

Thanks for the advice and I’m sure I’ll be back on here as soon as we’ve installed the latest version. After posting this morning I’ve emailed our IT guy and I’m going to ask him to download the latest version. As he’s out of the office today I want to give him as much information as possible therefore would you recommend we go straight for MODx 1.0 or 0.9.6.3?

Also I found the edit toolbar in our "ancient" version and went to move it and somehow or another managed to lose it! I then went into the demo version to see how I could retrieve it and lost it on there as well!

Yes, it’s possible to move it right off the screen. I think if you log out, and clear your browser cache and cookies for the domain, it will be back in its usual (usually annoying) place the next time you log in.

I would suggest going to 0,9.6.3 for now, as 1.0 is getting a totally different front-end editing tool.

It worked! I cleared the cache and cookies and the toolbar came back. I can now see what you mean by it being easy to just log on and edit from the "front-page". It’s fantastic. In the version we’re using we can’t change the font style and colours for headings (which is what I really want to do) but, having used the demo version I can now see how this can be done. I’ve now found out the IT guy won’t be in until tomorrow (Friday) so hopefully we’ll have a look at when we can upgrade. Thanks again for all your help.

Well, our IT guy has been in and we can’t see where we upload the files. We’ve downloaded them and saved them but neither of us are sure how to upload the new files onto the site. When you say "run" is that something that’s in the website manager or is it on the "start" menu?

Have you done a backup of the original site, including the database? If not, stop whatever you are doing, go to the Manager and clear the site cache, empty the System Events log and the Manager Actions log (that one’s a link in the paragraph of text after you click the Search button in Reports -> Manager Actions) and make a backup. Download the whole file system (manager folder, assets folder and the index.php and other files in the root), and use the Tools -> Backup utility to dump the database. Make sure to log out of the Manager when you are finished.

Once that is done, simply upload the top level of files and folders (manager and assets folders, index.php, etc) you’ve unzipped to the web root of your site (www, htdocs, public_html or whatever it’s called on your server). This will replace all older existing files and add any new ones without bothering your own custom files, such as the config.inc.php file and templates and images.

Also upload the install folder. Go to yourdomain.com/install and go through the process, selecting "upgrade" as the installation type. Take care that you do not select the demo site checkbox!

Thanks Susan. I’m busy today (and our IT guy is out), so I’ll probably have a look at it tomorrow. We did back it all up but, I’m unsure as to whether we included the database; again I’ll check this tomorrow. I’ll most likely wait until our IT guy is in (Wednesday) and we can use your instructions.

Thanks again.

I want the ability to create tables like in MS word, with say 8 rows, 2 columns... Is there a plugin or something that I can have installed? Thanks!

Quote from: Jtsourakis at Aug 12, 2009, 05:47 PM

I want the ability to create tables like in MS word, with say 8 rows, 2 columns... Is there a plugin or something that I can have installed? Thanks!

Why not simply use an HTML table? It gives you exactly the same as a table in Word.
As a matter of fact: if you make one in Word and save it as an .html/.htm document, it’ll generate the code for you as well (most likely not as decent as it could be, but still you’ll have your table).