1. Aurigma Customer's Canvas 5.3.0

Upgrading Customer's Canvas

Aurigma updates Customer's Canvas on a regular basis. Once a new version is released, it appears in your account in My Licenses & Downloads. You may want to test new features of the Design Editor and see how they can improve your project. This topic will help you ensure a smooth transition to the new version of the editor.

Important

When you need to run both old and new versions of Customer's Canvas, run them in separate application pools.

If you customized a UI theme for earlier versions, it may become incompatible with new versions of Customer's Canvas.

Since Customer's Canvas 4.4.0 and Customer's Canvas 5.0.0 introduced significant changes, there are different upgrade sequences:

Upgrading to Customer's Canvas 4.4

Important

Customer's Canvas 4.4.0 introduced the new licensing engine. You must get a new license key in your account to upgrade earlier versions of Customer's Canvas to 4.4.

To upgrade your version of Customer's Canvas, follow the steps below:

  1. Stop your application in the IIS manager.
  2. Backup your old instance.
  3. Delete all folders and files except for:
    • ~\App_Data
    • ~\ProductTemplates, ~\PublicGalleryFolder, ~\UserDataFolder
    • ~\Fonts
  4. Delete the \GraphicsMill.Core\ subfolder from ~\App_Data, if any.
  5. Unzip the new release into the root folder.
  6. Recover your configuration changes, if any, in the ~\Configuration folder:
    • clientConfig.json
    • AppSettings.config, VectorObjects.config, FileCache.config, and Converters.config (former Web.config)
    • TemplateConfigShortcuts.json
    • translations.json
    • Custom CSS
    • Email notifications
    • Themes
  7. Register your new license key.
  8. Start your application in the IIS manager.

Upgrading Customer's Canvas from 4.4 to 5.0

Important

In Customer's Canvas 5.0.0, the format of configuration files has changed. To upgrade earlier versions of Customer's Canvas to 5.0, you must either copy and paste parameters you have changed in .config files or modify section names in your configuration files. The following instruction describes the latter way.

To upgrade your version of Customer's Canvas, follow the steps below:

  1. Stop your application in the IIS manager.
  2. Backup your old instance.
  3. Delete all folders and files except for:
    • ~\App_Data
    • ~\ProductTemplates, ~\PublicGalleryFolder, ~\UserDataFolder
    • ~\Fonts
    • ~\bin\Aurigma.GraphicsMill.lic
  4. Unzip the new release into the root folder.
  5. Recover your configuration changes, if any, in the ~\Configuration folder:
    • clientConfig.json
    • AppSettings.config, VectorObjects.config, FileCache.config, and Converters.config
    • TemplateConfigShortcuts.json
    • translations.json
    • Custom CSS
    • Email notifications
    • Themes
  6. (Optional) Rename root nodes in your .config files if you recovered them in the old format:
    • VectorObjects.config: rename this file to Aurigma.DesignAtoms.config and rename the root node to: 
      <Aurigma.DesignAtoms>
    ...
</Aurigma.DesignAtoms>
    • FileCache.config: 
      <Aurigma.DesignAtoms.FileCacheConfiguration>
    ...
</Aurigma.DesignAtoms.FileCacheConfiguration>
    • Converters.config: 
      <Aurigma.DesignAtoms.Converters>
    ...
</Aurigma.DesignAtoms.Converters>
  7. (Optional) Rename section names in Web.config if you recovered this file in the old format:
    • In <configSections>, find: 
      <section name="Aurigma.GraphicsMill.AjaxControls.VectorObjects" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section name="Aurigma.GraphicsMill.AjaxControls.VectorObjects.FileCacheConfiguration" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section name="Aurigma.GraphicsMill.AjaxControls.VectorObjects.Converters" type="Aurigma.GraphicsMill.AjaxControls.VectorObjects.Config.ConvertersConfigSection, Aurigma.GraphicsMill.AjaxControls.VectorObjects" />
      and replace it with: 
      <section name="Aurigma.DesignAtoms" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section name="Aurigma.DesignAtoms.FileCacheConfiguration" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section name="Aurigma.DesignAtoms.Converters" type="Aurigma.DesignAtoms.Configuration.ConvertersConfig.ConvertersConfigSection, Aurigma.DesignAtoms" />
    • In <nlog>/<rules>, find: 
      <logger name="Aurigma.GraphicsMill.AjaxControls.VectorObjects.ExternalConverter" minlevel="Warn" writeTo="ExternalConverter" />
<logger name="CustomersCanvas.Licensing.License" minlevel="Info" writeTo="LicenseLogTarget" />
      and replace it with: 
      <logger name="Aurigma.DesignAtoms.Common.ExternalConverter.ExternalConverter" minlevel="Warn" writeTo="ExternalConverter" />
<logger name="Aurigma.DesignAtoms.Licensing.License" minlevel="Info" writeTo="LicenseLogTarget" />
    • Find sections: 
      <Aurigma.GraphicsMill.AjaxControls.VectorObjects configSource=".\Configuration\VectorObjects.config" />
<Aurigma.GraphicsMill.AjaxControls.VectorObjects.Converters configSource=".\Configuration\Converters.config" />
<Aurigma.GraphicsMill.AjaxControls.VectorObjects.FileCacheConfiguration configSource=".\Configuration\FileCache.config" />
      and replace them with: 
      <Aurigma.DesignAtoms configSource=".\Configuration\Aurigma.DesignAtoms.config" />
<Aurigma.DesignAtoms.Converters configSource=".\Configuration\Converters.config" />
<Aurigma.DesignAtoms.FileCacheConfiguration configSource=".\Configuration\FileCache.config" />
  8. Start your application in the IIS manager.

Upgrading Customer's Canvas from 5.0 to 5.1

To upgrade Customer's Canvas to 5.1 or more recent versions, follow the steps below:

  1. Stop your application in the IIS manager.
  2. Backup your old instance.
  3. Delete all folders and files except for:
    • ~\App_Data
    • ~\ProductTemplates, ~\PublicGalleryFolder, ~\UserDataFolder
    • ~\Fonts
    • ..\Assets
    • ..\userdata
  4. Unzip the new release into the root folder.
  5. Recover your configuration changes, if any, in the ~\Configuration folder:
    • clientConfig.json
    • AppSettings.config, VectorObjects.config, FileCache.config, and Converters.config (former Web.config)
    • TemplateConfigShortcuts.json
    • translations.json
    • Custom CSS
    • Email notifications
    • Themes
  6. (Optional) If you enabled the auto-start provider, replace the <serviceAutoStartProviders> node in %WINDIR%\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config with: 
    <serviceAutoStartProviders>
  <add name="CcAutoStartProvider" type="Aurigma.DesignEditor.CustomersCanvasInitialization, Aurigma.DesignEditor" />
</serviceAutoStartProviders>
  7. Start your application in the IIS manager.

See Also

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