Op 19-08-10 12:06, andrenuyens schreef: > > Hello, > > When I re-install Maps Products (by portal_quickinstaller), I lost my > properties. It's possible to avoid this behavior (I want keep > properties) ? > > I noticed that properties (in portal-properties/maps_properties) was not > deleted when I unistall Maps products but was modified when install it > (using propertiestool.zcml). > > Beforehand thanks a lot
You can avoid it by not reinstalling the product... :-) Reinstall basically uninstalls the product and then reinstalls it. Some products have more problems with this than others. Apparently Maps is one of the products for which a reinstall is not ideal. As an end user there is not much you can do about this. If you are using Plone 3.3 or higher and do not use the portal_quickinstaller in the ZMI but go to the Site Setup in the Plone UI and use the Add/Remove products page, that is a safer way. In at least some cases it will warn you that a product has a newer version but for some reason can not be safely upgraded because there are no automatic upgrade instructions. The Add/Remove Products page refuses to let you just reinstall a package as it knows that this may be "dangerous" as you found out. The whole reinstall products experience can be a bit hairy, and it is not always easy for developers to keep up with the latest improvements here. In this case, now that you know it, the simplest is maybe to next time first go to the maps_properties page and make a screenshot, then reinstall (which is not actually always needed, but that is hard to know) and look at the differences. -- Maurits van Rees Programmer, Zest Software _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
