A previous webmaster set up "6.x-1.x-dev (2010-Jul-11)". When I recently received a notice of the availability of " 6.x-1.x-dev (2011-Mar-03)" I tried to update the module. It doesn't seem to be compatible in some way with the version that was previously installed.

First is I need to comment out ddblock_show_content_debug_info($vars); and ddblock_show_pager_debug_info($vars); from the template.php in my theme, as these functions seem to be missing now. I then don't get any errors, but I also don't see the slideshow that was there prior to the upgrade.

The template.php snipits have at the top:

* Dynamic display block preprocess functions
* Copyright (c) 2008 - 2009 P. Blaauw All rights reserved.
* Version 1.5 (27-JUL-2009)

I also tried to downgrade to "6.x-1.0-rc6 (2009-Feb-26)" and was also not able to get that working. In that case I downloaded matching Export_files_V1.6.zip and upright10-50.zip files, and put the matching stuff from template.php.txt into my template.php. What I get is no errors, but also no slideshow.

In all instances I'm using "Views Slideshow: Dynamic Display Block 6.x-1.1", which was also recently released. It works with the old ddblock "6.x-1.x-dev (2010-Jul-11)" without any issues.

If it matters, I'm using the "Upright 30" template. The original site was using a custom template, but while debugging I switched to one of the supplied templates to have that variable out of the way.

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ppblaauw’s picture

ppblaauw commented

The old dev version was already long time available to test bugs and later on also new functionality not compatible with RC6 anymore.

I needed to use the test version, so I can finally make a 1.0 version of ddblock and changed the available dev version to a test version to test the solved bugs which are still in version RC6 with out new functionality which is incompatible with RC6.

The previous dev version and this version are not compatible.

RC6 with themes should work (know bugs and patches)
The new dev version with themes should work (this will become version 1.0 of ddblock, please test it and review the patches and for solved bugs so this will finally happen)

ddblock and views_slideshow_ddblock are separate modules.
You can use them separate or you can use them on the same site.

Please post specific issues with a version in a new post.

Russell McOrmond’s picture

Russell McOrmond commented

Thank you for the feedback, and the clarification on the relationship between ddblock and views_slideshow_ddblock modules.

In the shorter term we decided to move to using views_slideshow_ddblock 6.x-1.1 , which is sufficient for our needs.

ppblaauw’s picture

ppblaauw commented
Title: Problems upgrading (or downgrading) module: » Problems upgrading (or downgrading) module: (fixed)
Status: Active » Fixed

set status to fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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