Upgrading an Existing SalesCart Web in Dreamweaver

When you have successfully installed a new version of SalesCart, you will need to upgrade your existing SalesCart Web to work with the new version.

Final steps to upgrade or update your existing SalesCart Web with the new template software:

Be sure to back up your site before continuing, particularly the default.htm, lobby.htm, product pages, cgi-bin, and shop.mdb files. In particular, we will assume you've backed up the shop.mdb file as oldshop.mdb. We will use information from this file later in this procedure.

1. Open your existing SalesCart website.
2. In Macromedia, open up the web site you wish to upgrade/update. Delete all of the files in the cgi-bin representing the previous versions checkout system. Delete all files in the /fpdb folder representing the previous versions shop database.
3. From the main menu select SalesCart>>SalesCart Main Menu>>Create from the menu.



4. Select Create New Pages and New Settings in screen one of the wizard and click Next to overwrite all of the basic SalesCart template and checkout pages and database.
5. Be sure to specify your existing website location and name under Web Site Path and Web Site Name.



6. Click Next. Proceed to answer each of the SalesCart Wizard questions. Then click Finish when done.
7. Since you have installed a new version of SalesCart, the Web will be re-created and updated from the new version.
8. If you are prompted for permission to overwrite files. Say yes to all.
9. Now find your previous copies of the default.htm and lobby.htm files that you backed-up and copy and paste them into the updated Web created with the new version of SalesCart.
10. Now locate and double-click the oldshop.mdb file to launch Microsoft Access.
11. Select the C-shipping table in the Tables view.
12. Right click in Microsoft Access Tables View and select Edit>>Copy
13. Double-click on the new shop.mdb in the updated web created with the new version of SalesCart.
14. In Microsoft Access Tables View, double-click on the C-shipping Table. Select all the rows of data in the table and press the Del button on your keyboard. Select Edit>>Paste to paste the old data in the new table. Make sure the table has the same name C-shipping.
15. Follow the same procedure for the Look-Shipping table, Look-Weight table, Taxes table, and the Merchants table. This will copy the old data to the new database while preserving the new format or database schema.
16. Lastly, you can either create new product pages or use the same product pages remembering to replace the old product links with the new version of the product link.
17. Until you edit the pages and double-click on the existing product links in your old webpage, the SalesCart product links will not be updated or upgraded. However, in most case, SalesCart is backwardly compatible and the old product links will operate correctly unless you wish to take advantage of new features. You may slowly migrate the pages by editing each one on an "as-needed" basis.