This section details the procedure to be used when upgrading to a new release of OpenVPMS.
The headings below are:
Having installed the new release, you may want to look at the Implementation Checklist page.
Note that in the following the directory or folder separator character is shown as /, following unix conventions. On Windows, replace / with \. e.g. given:
<OPENVPMS_HOME>/lib
change to:
<OPENVPMS_HOME>\lib
The software required to run OpenVPMS may change between releases.
Check Requirements to ensure you have the necessary software.
Back up your database prior to performing the upgrade.
This can be done using the mysqldump tool. e.g.:
mysqldump -u openvpms -p openvpms > openvpms.sql
NOTE: It is good practice to ensure that the backup can be restored to a different server, prior to performing any upgrade.
See also How To|Administration|Backup.
These instructions assume that:
1. The previous OpenVPMS installation is available in <OPENVPMS_PREV>.
e.g. on Windows:
c:\OpenVPMS\openvpms-release-1.7
2. The new installation will be located in <OPENVPMS_HOME>.
e.g. on Windows:
c:\OpenVPMS\openvpms-release-1.8
NOTE: the OpenVPMS version can be excluded from the path name, for example c:\OpenVPMS-Current Release - when upgrading you can rename this to say 'Current Release prev' . This can simplify upgrades by removing the need to change custom scripts that contain the installation path.
The previous installation should be retained until:
Upgrading from an earlier version of OpenVPMS requires data migration scripts to be run.
The scripts are located in the <OPENVPMS_HOME>/update/db directory. With the exception of the 1.5 to 1.6 release (where there was no change to the database structure), there is one sql script per release.
The sql scripts are:
migrate-1.0-to-1.1.sql
migrate-1.1-to-1.2.sql
migrate-1.2-to-1.3.sql
migrate-1.3-to-1.4.sql
migrate-1.4-to-1.5.sql
migrate-1.6-to-1.7.sql
migrate-1.7-to-1.8.sql
You need to run each relevant one in turn using the mysql utility.
Hence if you are upgrading from OpenVPMS 1.7, run:
> mysql -u openvpms -p openvpms < migrate-1.7-to-1.8.sql
If you are upgrading from OpenVPMS 1.5 or 1.6, run:
> mysql -u openvpms -p openvpms < migrate-1.6-to-1.7.sql
> mysql -u openvpms -p openvpms < migrate-1.7-to-1.8.sql
If you are upgrading from OpenVPMS 1.0 - you need the lot, so run:
> mysql -u openvpms -p openvpms < migrate-1.0-to-1.1.sql
> mysql -u openvpms -p openvpms < migrate-1.1-to-1.2.sql
> mysql -u openvpms -p openvpms < migrate-1.2-to-1.3.sql
> mysql -u openvpms -p openvpms < migrate-1.3-to-1.4.sql
> mysql -u openvpms -p openvpms < migrate-1.4-to-1.5.sql
> mysql -u openvpms -p openvpms < migrate-1.6-to-1.7.sql
> mysql -u openvpms -p openvpms < migrate-1.7-to-1.8.sql
Note that if you are helping test a new release, you will be getting 'snapshot' releases. It this case it is sensible to re-run the migration script for the new version. The scripts are written so that they are re-runnable.
If you are replicating your OpenVPMS database, you must ensure that row-based replication is used. The migration scripts are not compatible with statement-based replication.
Copy the MySQL JDBC driver mysql-connector-java-5.1.<x>-bin.jar from <OPENVPMS_PREV>/lib to <OPENVPMS_HOME>/lib
Load the latest archetypes by running the appropriate archload script for your platform.
Windows:
> cd <OPENVPMS_HOME>\bin
> archload
Unix:
> cd <OPENVPMS_HOME>/bin
> archload.sh
The existing web application should be removed before installing the new version.
To do this:
If you use customised versions of the standard archetypes, or have added archetypes, these will need to be loaded.
For modified versions of the standard archetypes, be sure to incorporate any changes that have been made.
You should then use archload to load these archetypes - or if you have only a few, use Administration|Archetypes|Import.
If you have customised versions of propercase.properties, help.properties, or messages.properties you need to install these in
<TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/openvpms/WEB-INF/classes/localisation
You can simply overwrite the default propercase.properties with your own version.
However, help.properties and messages.properties will need to be edited to bring your adjustments into the current versions.
If you have a customised default.stylesheet, then the version in
<TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/openvpms/WEB-INF/classes/style
will need to be edited to incorporate your changes.
Now restart Apache Tomcat so the above customisations get picked up and login and see that things are as they should be.
In order to take advantage of new and revised document templates, you will need to load these - see here. Note that you will almost certainly have tailored versions of the system documents (like invoices, credits, etc). Before loading the templates, you will need to check that your customised version have different names - as the notes say:
"If a template with the same name has been already loaded, it will be replaced. More precisely, templates with the same name AND same content name will be replaced. Hence, if you have a template named Invoice, with content invoice-BE.jrxml, this will not be replaced but a new template named Invoice with content invoice.jrxml will be created."
Hence, if your customised versions have the standard content names, loading the new set will overwrite your customised versions. In this case, the best approach is probably to edit the templateload xml file (ie <OPENVPMS-HOME>/reports/templates-X.xml where X is A4, A5 or Letter) to delete the lines for the templates that you do not want loaded.
If you use Pentaho Data Integration (see here) then you need perform its steps 1,2 and 3 to upgrade the OpenVPMS components.