Hi Lee ~

The install is actually a COMPLETE product package, including the content management system. It is not being packaged or distributed as a module.

Hope that helps you.

Cheers,
Scott

Hello Lee:

As Scott mentioned, Hotcakes Commerce is now an e-commerce CMS and not a module to be installed. You'll want to review the FAQ's where upgrades are specifically spoken about.

[url=https://hotcakescommerce.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002848686-Version-3-0-FAQ-s]https://hotcakescommerce.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002848686-Version-3-0-FAQ-s[/url]

Basically, you'll upgrade the same way as you're used to upgrading the entire site.

unzip update HCC_Platform_03.00.00_Upgrade to working dnn 9.x site has error "Hotcakes Commerce Error" url ...Default.aspx?tabid=20&error=Could+not+load+type+%27DotNetNuke.Services.ImprovementsProgram.IBeaconService%27+from+assembly+%27DotNetNuke%2c+Version%3d8.0.3.5%2c+Culture%3dneutral%2c+PublicKeyToken%3dnull%27.&content=0
Lee

Hi Lee,

To provide some more clarification to what Scott and Will said above, Hotcakes is now a distribution which includes both the ecommerce module and the CMS in one integrated package. This package is a full featured solution that includes ecommerce and content management. The CMS in the distribution is version 8.0.3. We chose a specific version because we need a solid foundation upon which we can develop and test our ecommerce capabilities. If you are in one of the rare situations where you are already running a CMS version that is higher than 8.0.3 then you will not be able to upgrade your site using the standard Hotcakes package we provide. I hope this provides some additional clarification.

One you install the hotcakes CMS can you then upgrade the CMS or will that break hot cakes?

[quote=teambound;57]One you install the hotcakes CMS can you then upgrade the CMS or will that break hot cakes?[/quote]

We have not tested Hotcakes on a CMS version higher than 8.0.3. Please feel free to try to upgrade it and let us know the results.

Hi,

I understand Hotcakes is now a complete CMS solution. However, we have an existing site that we would like to upgrade to the latest version of hotcakes. I noticed that if you build the "core" project from the github repo, a zip file "HotcakesCommerce_03.00.00_Install.zip" is created which appears to be the DNN module install file. I'm hoping this can be used to upgrade an existing site.

Our site is currently on Evoq 8.2.0 (DNN Platform 7.4.2). In order to upgrade to hotcakes 3.0 would we first need to update to Evoq 8.4.2 (DNN Platform 8.0.3), then install the HotcakesCommerce_03.00.00_Install.zip module to upgrade hotcakes? Please let me know if this should work, or if there is an alternate method of upgrading an existing site.

Thanks,
Rex

Rex,

Hotcakes V3 does not work with the Evoq Platform. I just went through this with another post in the community.

Here is a link to the post: https://mmmcommerce.com/F...s-v3-on-Evoq-Content

The key part of that thread is: https://hotcakescommerce....es-3-xx-from-CMS-CMS

At the end it says: "The Evoq edition of D N N CMS is not supported, only Platform."

So it looks like the only option that would be available is run Hotcakes as a separate instance. Or fork the code and attempt to make just a module install like it was in previous versions. I am not sure why the decision was made to basically fork D N N and make hotcakes a full CMS instead of using the CMS and keeping Hotcakes as a module.