Good to hear. We're looking to do the same thing (7.5->10). if 10.1 is
really coming soon though then we'll probably just wait for that.

Aside from some jquery scripts and nav manager, its about as vanilla a
project as it gets so i'm not anticipating any upgrade issues with the
project. (i probably just jinxed it though :\ )

On Dec 4, 6:39 am, DTMOW <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have made the jump from 7.5 to 10 and it has actually been a pretty
> smooth experience. My users actually love the new interface though
> some are confused by the search. There is as mentioned an
> occasional .net error especially when creating a new page but a
> refresh does the trick.
>
> With regards to CSS. We did run into an issue which sounds like what
> you may have run into ArryD, I contacted reddot dupport and they
> pointed me to a simple solution all you have to do is add a dummy
> style declaration with no attributes as the first line of your css and
> all is well with the world. It makes no sense but works. So the first
> line of my css is
>
> test{}
>
> Also, I am running JQuery in the CMS with no problems that I can see.
> Haven't tried any other frameworks.
>
> I would say that if you are starting a new project now, there is no
> reason to not use 10.
>
> - Dmitry
>
> On Dec 3, 8:58 am, ArryD <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Just to add the above also helped get around the very annoying problem
> > where opening the page in SmartTree would take you to the stylesheet
> > in the tree rather than the current page.
>
> > On Dec 3, 12:19 pm, ArryD <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > The project uses CSS based on templates, and we had to change our page
> > > templates to include all the CSS within the page using a container,
> > > for SmartEdit mode. The publish pages go back to using normal links.
> > > We also had to modify some of the CSS styles, so things like the Body
> > > tag had to use an ID rather than a class declaration.
>
> > > All of that will have to be undone once this problem is fixed too...
>
> > > On Dec 1, 5:27 pm, Dave Bellous <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Aaron,
>
> > > > What was the issue / solution with CSS?
>
> > > > Thanks,
>
> > > > .dave
>
> > > > On 2009-11-30, at 10:41 AM , ArryD wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi Trev
>
> > > > > Ive just finished my first V10 project, and I would definitely
> > > > > recommend waiting for the 10.1 release. We didnt have a choice as the
> > > > > client wanted staff to be trained on V10, even though they gave us V9
> > > > > to do the initial development on...
>
> > > > > Anyway there is a massive change to the user interface in V10, but im
> > > > > guessing you're aware of this? It will have a big impact on the CMS
> > > > > editors and authors and retraining might need to be done. There's a
> > > > > lot of nice new stuff in there, and its basically a good release. But
> > > > > we did have to change our template structure and CSS to get around a
> > > > > problem with the way V10 handles CSS with the new interface.
>
> > > > > I've noticed some weird behaviour with SmartTree when using it in
> > > > > remote desktop, and its basically not usable, but this may not be a
> > > > > consideration for you. There is the odd ASP.Net error thrown which
> > > > > requires a page refresh to get the page to load.
>
> > > > > So there have been a few problems and the CSS issue was a decent time
> > > > > waster but it has been pretty stable otherwise. I would wait for 10.1
> > > > > to address these sorts of things, and if it does it will be pretty
> > > > > solid. I'll add more to this thread if I remember anything.
>
> > > > > - Aaron
>
> > > > > On Nov 30, 5:00 pm, trevc <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > >> We're running 7.5 on a project and now that 10 is out we're trying to
> > > > >> make a decision to upgrade to 9 or version 10.  One big factor is IE 
> > > > >> 8
> > > > >> support.
>
> > > > >> In a support ticket, RedDot(opentext) support seemed to shy us away
> > > > >> from going to 10 since it's the first verson and recommended waiting
> > > > >> until 10.1 is out which is supposedly by the end of the year.
>
> > > > >> On paper, it looks like a big upgrade as versions jump from 7.5 to 
> > > > >> 10,
> > > > >> but I've been told the core CMS/Workflow hasn't changed 
> > > > >> significantly.
>
> > > > >> As far as I know, 7.5 -> 9 gets us a new  text editor, bug fixes, 
> > > > >> some
> > > > >> performance improvement with page builder and a new logo.
>
> > > > >> Going to 10 seems the same but just a new PageBuilder written from
> > > > >> scratch.
>
> > > > >> If we're taking the time to upgrade, I always like going with the
> > > > >> latest one as possible but wondering what the general experience of
>
> > > > >>        A. upgrading to 10 is like
> > > > >> and
> > > > >>        B. How Stable/buggy 10 is?
>
> > > > >> thanks
> > > > >> ./tc
>
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