[Pro] Is 6 Pro upgrade to 7 Pro seamless?

I have just over 300 individually written pages in my 6 Pro website. All are based on the same Master page, with some individual changes on almost all the pages.

MY question: (after making sure I have some current 6 Pro backups) Will it be pretty much seamless to open the site in 7 Pro if I upgrade? Mostly I’m worried that somehow it will change my text box spaces (which in my 6 Pro are a specific, defined width), and I’ll have to scramble to manually adjust all 300+ pages.

Am I worrying for nothing? Will 7 Pro simply open my website exactly as it is in 6 Pro and THEN await any changes I’ll make? Or will it somehow alter my website upon opening? I don’t want that.

(P.S. The website is in my signature)


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The first time you open your existing FW6 site in FW7 it will warn you
before opening and create a back up file. So in case errors might occur or
if you are not satisfied you can always return to your back up.
Op 20 dec. 2014 20:29 schreef “Jim Feeney” email@hidden:

I have just over 300 individually written pages in my 6 Pro website. All
are based on the same Master page, with some individual changes on almost
all the pages.

MY question: (after making sure I have some current 6 Pro backups) Will it
be pretty much seamless to open the site in 7 Pro if I upgrade? Mostly I’m
worried that somehow it will change my text box spaces (which in my 6 Pro
are a specific, defined width), and I’ll have to scramble to manually
adjust all 300+ pages.

Am I worrying for nothing? Will 7 Pro simply open my website exactly as it
is in 6 Pro and THEN await any changes I’ll make? Or will it somehow alter
my website upon opening? I don’t want that.

(P.S. The website is in my signature)


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The only thing that you will experience after installing FW7 on your Mac is that any Freeway files that you double-click in the Finder will open in Freeway 7, regardless whether you made them in Freeway 6, 5, 4 etc. This is how the Mac OS works – the newest application that responds to a .freeway file will always be used to open a .freeway file.

And the work-around is simple to do, but difficult to remember in the heat of the moment: always open the application you want to use first, then use that application’s File / Open dialog to open the document. That way your intent is clear, the Mac OS doesn’t have to read your mind, and you can do precisely what you meant to do.

Walter

On Dec 21, 2014, at 8:37 AM, email@hidden wrote:

The first time you open your existing FW6 site in FW7 it will warn you
before opening and create a back up file. So in case errors might occur or
if you are not satisfied you can always return to your back up.


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When I quit Freeway with an open file, whichever version of Freeway I open next (6 or 7) that version tries to reopen that file and let’s me know when it’s a mis-match.

To make this less confusing, I have to remember to close open files prior to quitting the app.


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Good tips, thanks.

And when I open my file for the very first time in Freeway 7 Pro, will it keep all the formatting identical to what I have used in 6 Pro — styles, text box sizes, etc.?


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Nobody can ensure this, cause some things depend on how they’re constructed.

Basically - my route is, to keep projects alongside the FW-version they’ve been created in - so the “never stop a running engine” attitude.

For this reason, I’ve got 5.5, 6 and 7 (still) installed.

Cheers

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It should, but you should test and see. There is little or no risk from this, because the first thing that Freeway does (has always done this, it’s not new) when opening a document in a newer version than the file was created in is to create a backup of that file with no changes, renamed whatever [Freeway 6].freeway and save that file alongside the file you are opening. You can always go back, without any changes whatsoever, by re-opening that backup in the previous version of the application.

The primary difference between Freeway 6 and 7 is the addition of the responsive design tools. And when you open a document that was created without these breakpoints, none of them are added by default. So it seems to me that if you open a fully-designed Freeway 6 document in Freeway 7, nothing new will be added, and the document should publish more or less identically. It is the same layout calculation going through the same engine, after all. If you then use the new UI to add breakpoint differences to your layout, then new (additional) CSS will be calculated and added to the output HTML, and the page will look different at different browser dimensions. But this will be side-car CSS, not a change in the original layout CSS, and it is applied by the browser if the window is of a size where that style rule would apply, and ignored if not.

Walter

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Good tips, thanks.

And when I open my file for the very first time in Freeway 7 Pro, will it keep all the formatting identical to what I have used in 6 Pro — styles, text box sizes, etc.?


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It should, but you should test and see. There is little or no risk from this, because the first thing that Freeway does (has always done this, it’s not new) when opening a document in a newer version than the file was created in is to create a backup of that file with no changes

The first thing that you should do in your freshly opened FW7 Document is select a new Site Folder to publish into. Do this in File>Document Setup - the option is half way down under the Document Tab. Site Folder:… and under that a Select Button to pick your new Site Folder. As a matter of course I would create a ‘FW7 Site Folder’ in the Finder.

Do that and you will be able to easily preview your 6 and 7 sites side by side in your Browser without repeatedly republishing.

David


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I appreciate the advice. Thanks.


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