Information about the migration of the Visforms Subscription to a single package installation
The information provided here is only relevant for Visforms Subscriptions which were bought prior to Dec. 12th, 2016.
Please note: We only modify the way how the Visforms Subscription is installed and updated. These changes have no effect on either the feature which are included in the subscription nor the validity of the subscription or any other contract detail. The only goal of the changes is, to make it easier and safer to manage the subscription.
Why do we convert to a single package installation?
The Visforms Subscription includes a bundle of useful extensions for Visforms. When we started offering a subscription a year and a half ago, this were 4 extensions. Today, the Visforms Subscriptions contains 11 extensions with a tendency to even more, because we continously develop new feature.
Until now, each extension had to be installed and manage individually. Although this was fine, with only a small number of extensions, this has become awkward with an encreasing number of extensions.
That is, why we have decided to modify the way the subscription is managed and to provide a single package installation, that includes everything. These changes have no effect on either the feature which are included in the subscription nor the validity of the subscription or any other contract detail. The only goal of the changes is, to make it easier and safer to manage the subscription.
What is the difference for me?
- There is only one installation file, which installs each subscripiton feature and extension at once.
- Even if we provide updates with improvements or bugfixes that may concern more than one extension which is part of the subscription, you always only have to run one update - the update of the subscription package.
- If we develop a new feature for our subscription, it will be released by way of update of the subscription package. Thus you will get new features automatically, just by keeping the subscription package up to date.
What do I have to do?
The only thing you have to do, is to download the new package installation file once and install it on your website.
How do I update to the single package subscription?
That is easy.
1. Make sure, that you have the required minimal Visforms version installed on your website and update Visforms if needs be. You can find information about the required Visforms version in the the Subscription overview. At the moment it is Visforms 3.8.21
2. Log in with the username and password of the user, which you used to buy the subcription
3. Download the new package installation of the subscription here
4. Install subscription package installation via extension manager on your website
These steps are only required once. In the future you will be notified about each update of the subscription in the update manager of your website, again.
What happens during this installation?
When you install the single package subscription for the first time, mostly old record sets concerning the Visforms Subscription are purged from the data base. Further on all subscription extensions and files are updated to the newest version.