This is an upgrade guide for TrackPoint. Upgrading is an easy process. If you have any problems or errors during installation, please send in a support ticket via your client area.

Contents

  1. Basic Method
  2. Uploading Files
  3. Restoring Your Files

1. Basic Method

This is the basic method for upgrading from TrackPoint from a previous version of TrackPoint

  1. Download the new version from the clientarea
  2. Backup all of your existing files
  3. Upload the new files from the zipfile

Once you have uploaded your files and browsed back to your installation you will be run through any database updates that are available in the browser based upgrade wizard.

2. Uploading Files

Unzip the TrackPoint package onto your local hard drive. If you don't have Winzip you can download it for free.

Using an FTP program (such as Filezilla, which is free, or a commercial package such as CuteFTP), login to your web server and copy the TrackPoint files down from your server to your hard drive. Once this back up is complete you can then copy across the newly downloaded files of the latest release of TrackPoint over the top of your old files. You will overwrite the old files with the new ones, thus upgrading.

3. Restoring Your Files

If you have modified your TrackPoint files for custom functions or even simply just changing the look and feel of the application you should now re upload these files. Make sure you check your current files against the newly upgraded ones to make sure you are not reverting any changes.

Congratulations, you are now ready to login to the TrackPoint control panel and start adding content! Your control panel will be accessible by adding '/admin' onto the end of your website URL.