{"id":268,"date":"2010-10-22T07:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T20:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/2010\/10\/sugarcrm-upgrading-5-2-to-5-5-and-beyond\/"},"modified":"2010-10-22T07:56:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T20:56:39","slug":"sugarcrm-upgrading-5-2-to-5-5-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/2010\/10\/sugarcrm-upgrading-5-2-to-5-5-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"SugarCRM upgrading 5.2 to 5.5 and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started a process of upgrading our live SugarCRM system from 5.2.0c to later versions. The upgrade paths leave a blind trail at 5.5.4 as there is currently no direct upgrade to 6.1 from 5.5.4. So I am using 5.2.0 to 5.5.1 and then 5.5.1 to 6.1beta5.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason for the upgrade is that we want to use the projects tracking and in 5.2.0 there is no ability to connect the projects panels with prospects\/targets, only with accounts\/contacts. <\/p>\n<p>I use the prospects\/targets for anyone that may be associated with a project but is not a key player, i.e. I dont need to see as much detail for a business or person that plays a minor role. <\/p>\n<p>5.5.x fixes that limitation, and I expect 6.1 will also, but the question is how much time do I spend on 5.5 given that 6.1 is looking pretty stable. <\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll be shooting for 6.1 as the next upgrade to production unless we find a show stopper in testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started a process of upgrading our live SugarCRM system from 5.2.0c to later versions. The upgrade paths leave a blind trail at 5.5.4 as there is currently no direct upgrade to 6.1 from 5.5.4. So I am using 5.2.0 to 5.5.1 and then 5.5.1 to 6.1beta5. The main reason for the upgrade is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sugarcrm","category-sugarcrm-windows","tag-sugarcrm-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}