Upgrading Custom Pages

As of SDL Tridion 2011, Custom Pages have a new XML format. If you are upgrading from a release before SDL Tridion 2011, use the Custom Page Converter tool to convert your existing Custom Page XML files to new ones.

Procedure

  1. Open a command line prompt.
  2. Access the Content Manager\Additional Tools\Upgrade Support folder of the SDL Tridion installation media and run CustomPagesConverter.exe using the following command (without parameters):
    CustomPagesConverter.exe
  3. If you run the converter without parameters, it will try to use the registry key \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Tridion\Content Manager Web Site\InstallDirWebSite to locate the source and destination Custom Page XML files:
    • The source is the Custom Page XML file that belongs to your old Content Manager Explorer.

    • The destination XML file is part of Content Manager Explorer 2011 SP1 and must exist as well.

  4. If, for some reason, the registry key cannot be found, you can also run the converter and specify the two mandatory parameters (the old and new Custom Pages files) yourself. For example, on a 32-bit system, type:
    CustomPagesConverter.exe "C:\Program Files\Tridion\web\Library\XML\CustomPages.xml" 
    "C:\Program Files\Tridion\web\WebUI\Editors\CME\Preferences\CustomPages.xml"
    You can run also the following command to show the available options for the converter:
    CustomPagesConverter.exe /?