Where are the orders kept

[Chunkford]

Just a quick one,
Are the orders in actinic stored in the access database?
So if i just wanted to transfer the order details over to another site i could just do that by backing up the database and not the whole site by snapshot

Paul

[leehack]

There's an import orders option on the file menu if that's any good, not entirely sure what you're trying to do.

[Chunkford]

I've done major work on a v9 site that was upgraded from v8. My client has been using v8 while i have been doing the work so there is new orders that need to be carried over for order history purposes.
So what i was going to do is create a current snapshot of the v8 site that they have been using, import it into v9 and let it do it's stuff, then import the contents of the v9 site that i have been working on over the top.
But as the site is nearly 500mb it takes ages to do a snapshots, so i thought to save time i could just back up the database and restore it in a fresh v9 site, and import the work i have done in v9 over the top

Hope that makes sense

[pinbrook]

Client site is 8, production site is 9?

Get snapshot from client, in the dev site select file | import orders.

I think this will work for 8 to 9. if not upgrade client snapshot to 9 then as above.

Send snapshot back to client. Tell client now to download any orders whilst you do this - bit TBH it only takes 10 mins.

[Chunkford]

Client site is 8, production site is 9?

Yep that's the one.

I will have a play, i thought i could have taken a short cut by just backing up the database as it takes over an hour to backup

[Jan]

You can import orders from the V8 database into the V9 one - when the site is updated they will be upgraded to V9 style orders automatically if there are any differences.

Regards,