How to update the CMS

Here you will find all the steps to update the CMS.

1. How to understand your version of the CMS

To understand the current version of your CMS, open the CMS page. Scroll down the left side menu to the end: at the end of all the collections, you will find the wording "My API CMS v7.0.10]" with the indication of the version (in this example v7.0.10).

In the release notes, you will find the eventual information about new CMS versions and features.

2. How to update the CMS version

To update the CMS version the steps are two:

First step

Change the CMS configuration. The path to access the configuration file on git is:

>projectname/Webapp/custom CMS/.gitlab-ci.yml

In the "variables" section you can find "CMS_VERSION", which must be updated with the latest available or desired version of the CMS. At this point, the CMS in test is saved and displayed.

Second step

Proceed with the configuration for Gitlab CI . To do this the path on git is:

>projectname/config/.gitlab-ci.yml

In the file you can find the configuration of all environments (development, preprod and cloud).

For each environments, in the "variables" section you can update the CMS version to the "CMS_IMAGE_NAME" field.

danger

You should save and deploy the project from the API Console in each environments. Only after the deploy it will be possible to see the updated CMS version in each environments.