migrate forms from 4 to 5

How can i migrate forms from v4 to v5 ?

Thanks

Hi blondie,

If you click the Restore Form icon in CFv5 you'll see that there is an experimental importer for CFv4 backup files. It may or may not work for you depending on the form.

At present there isn't any great need to upgrade from 4 to 5 except to experiment, and some features are not yet available in CFV5.

Bob

Hi Bob, thanks for your reply
I've tested it, v4 forms are restored but then does'nt work
Edit and View break screen..

Anyway i've simple forms so it's easy to create from scratch..
I've reply you only as feedback

regards

Mauro

Hi Mauro,

Thanks for letting us know. I'm sure that Max will improve the importer in future versions.

Bob

Restore from V4 to V5 went well, opening takes a long time and finally:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\schoon321\libraries\cegcore\libs\app_j.php on line 159

Clicking on the form name gives this at the bottom of the page:

Fatal error: Class '\GCore\Admin\Extensions\Chronoforms\Fields\Header\Header' not found in C:\xampp\htdocs\schoon321\administrator\components\com_chronoforms5\chronoforms\views\edit.php on line 926

Also solved by the new fix!

Hey,

I just did an export in v4, and an 'experimental import' in V5.
My forms are in there (with the fields in designer), but the action functions (setup) are all empty.

I'm currently happy with v4, so no pressure here. But let me know if can help to troubleshoot it.
Or if you want access to the site, let me know, it's a test site (Joomla v3.2.2).

Hi,

I need to migrate Chrono forms v3 to Chrono forms v5 .
Is it possible?

Hi Hiral,

You can copy your old forms code to a new custom code form in v5, but it wouldn't look well styled, I suggest that you rebuild the forms in v5, the designer and the setup are totally different but has been improved a lot!

Regards,
Max

Hello Admin,

Thanks for detailed clarification. Than It will be better to rebuilt it.

Regards,
Hiral

I've migrated from CF4.0 RC3.3 to CF5. After some searching I found this page on how to import the forms, but the events are not imported?

Maybe I missed something obvious. How to import the events?

Hi Carsten,

Yes, events are not imported because the options names are different in many cases and its hard to match them for ALL actions!

Please note that v4 is still supported and you can keep it installed and working and use v5 for new forms only.

Regards,
Max

Please note that v4 is still supported and you can keep it installed and working and use v5 for new forms only.

I'm updating to v5 because I'm migrating all my sites to Joomla 3.

Please note that when importing from v4 to v5, there are quite some errors in v5. These errors eventually go away if you open each form, add events and save them.

I got v5 succesfully working now. Can I uninstall v4? Or will that also uninstall all the tables which might be used by v5?

You can uninstall v4 safely BUT you better keep it for now until you make sure everything is working smoothly with your restored forms ? maybe you need some info or some data.

Pay attention to the data tables used to save the form data if you had any.

You may also take forms backup which can be used later!

Regards,
Max

You can uninstall v4 safely BUT you better keep it for now until you make sure everything is working smoothly with your restored forms ? maybe you need some info or some data.

All is backed up already and v5 is fully tested. I never got v4 working on j3, just gave a 404 component not found.

thanks.

confirming that when uninstalling v4, the data-tables stay in the database. But DO make a backup first in case in another version this is no longer the case🙂

Here is a little script I used to check all the articles for links to chronoforms. Output is a list of links to the article edit page so you can manually updated (just add a '5').

$db = JFactory::getDBO();
$query = $db->getQuery(true);
$query->select('id, title');
$query->from('#__content');
$query->where('introtext LIKE "%com_chronoforms%"');
$rows = $db->setQuery($query);				
$rows = $db->loadObjectList();
	
foreach($rows as $row){	
	echo '<br />';
	echo '<a href="index.php?option=com_content&task=article.edit&id='.$row->id.'">';	
	echo $row->title;
	echo '</a>';	
}

Paste this code in
administrator/components/com_banners/views/banners/tmpl/default.php
under line 11

then go in your admin to 'components' > 'banners' to see the list.