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Upgrade documentation could be clearer about order of upgrades
March 08, 2013, 09:32:02 am
I am trying to test the "Upgrade Drupal Sites to 4.3 - Drupal 7" documentation http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC43/Upgrade+Drupal+Sites+to+4.3+-+Drupal+7 in order to upgrade a Drupal 6.28 + CiviCRM 3.4.8 site to Drupal 7 + CiviCRM 4.3

I think that it needs to be quite clear in what order the software should be upgraded.  I know this is implied, but I suggest that the instructions should very clearly say that Drupal should already be upgraded according to http://drupal.org/documentation/upgrade/6/7 but that this (ie "Upgrade Drupal Sites to 4.3 - Drupal 7") should have been studied beforehand, specifically the part about leaving CiviCRM enabled during the Drupal upgrade process.

If (as I just did!) you upgrade CiviCRM before upgrading Drupal you get.....
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Sorry but we are not able to provide this at the moment.
DB Error: no such table

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Re: Upgrade documentation could be clearer about order of upgrades
March 09, 2013, 12:16:29 pm
I'm not clear what you are pointing out. It is not strictly necessary to upgrade to Drupal 7 as there is a D6 version of CiviCRM 4.3.

If you do want to upgrade to D7 first, then there is a paragraph in red at the top of the page you referenced that has:

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we recommend that you do NOT disable CiviCRM.

among other instructions for the D6-D7 upgrade.

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