Previous Upgrade: February 2013
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General Information
New Monthly Upgrades
The pace of business change has increased since we started SmartSimple in 2002. One feature of our service that has not kept pace has been the application of upgrades.
So, effective October 2012, we will be releasing upgrades on a monthly basis.
The benefits of this approach are as follows:
- The upgrades will be performed in smaller batches.
- New features will come on-stream faster, as we can fast track key enhancements into early updates.
The overall upgrade process is not changing. We will provide a list of updates to both the backup and production servers. The only difference in this new process is that these updates will be much more frequent -- and much smaller.
This page will provide a general overview of each upgrade, with links to the Wiki articles describing the new or updated features and how to use them. You can also subscribe to the Technical Journal that is sent out prior to each upgrade on the Newsletter Signup Page. (Unsubscribe here).
System Upgrade Process
The objective of the System Upgrade Process is to ensure that customers have a chance to review, without compromising the integrity of their production system, how their applications and information will work following the upgrade. In order to take advantage of this you will need to know how to access your backup instance of SmartSimple. If you need assistance with this either refer to the Backup Server and Testing Instances Wiki article, or contact the SmartSimple support desk.
Backup Server Update
- Each backup server will be updated to the "release candidate" prior to the upgrade date.
- This update will provide for instance specific testing of release candidate, as you can log into your respective backup server and test the the changes against your most current data and configuration.
- Internal staff will also be using these servers to perform instance specific testing.
Update Go/No-Go
- Subject to satisfactory testing on both the pre-production server and the production backup servers, the go/no go decision will be made on Wednesday at 12:00pm.
Current Upgrade Package: January 2013
The following servers will be upgraded on Thursday January 10, 2013 at 9pm EST.
- smartsimple.com
- smartsimple2.biz
- smartsimple3.biz
- smartsimple4.biz
- smartsimple.ca
- smartsimple.us
- smartsimple.biz
- smartsimple.ie (after 9pm Local Time)
- smartsimple.ca.za (after 9pm Local Time)
- factorial.ca
- frontdeskinc.net
The associated backup servers were upgraded on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 for testing.
Important: The upgrade will be applied to your backup server 1 week prior to the scheduled upgrade date for your production server. You are encouraged to log into your backup server during this period to test the changes against your most recent data and configuration. Backup Server and Testing Instances
If your organization has a dedicated SmartSimple server or you host in-house, SmartSimple will be in contact with your system administrator to schedule the upgrade of your server after January 10th.
The following feature was implemented as part of the upgrade cycle which commenced in January 2013:
Workflows
- New Workflow Task Type: Update Standard Field Value. A new workflow task type has been added to allow workflows to update the values of standard fields on Level 1, Level 2, company, contact and transaction records.
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Previous Upgrades
Click on the links below to find detailed information on previous upgrades.
- The date listed indicates when the upgrade cycle commenced. Not all servers were upgraded on that date.