Upgrade from 12 to 13?
# help-with-umbracoj
jonroberts
11/15/2023, 12:20 PMHi - we have built a lot of custom CMS Block Grid controllers to set up the CMS styled blocks. in 12.
If we finally upgrade the CMS to 13 (when it comes out) will we need to revisit these CMS blocks to replace the AngularJS or is AngularJS remaining in 13 +?
Thanks
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Sven Geusens
11/15/2023, 12:45 PMAngular JS is staying in v13
v14 should be introducing a new backoffice that is build on webcomponents (with some Lit support)
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jonroberts
11/15/2023, 1:27 PMWould a new website built in 12 then upgraded purely by doing a DLL (nuget package update) upgrade to 13 be then possible to upgrade to 14 without any type of re-build? if using out of the box Block Grid components?
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Sven Geusens
11/15/2023, 1:34 PMas long as nothing in the backoffice was customized (including packages), then i am 99% sure it would work. We are not changing our storage model. There is a feature in the works that should hit v14 regarding elements (which the block system uses) but that should have a migration to move everything into the new format.
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jonroberts
11/15/2023, 1:34 PMGreat 🙂
jonroberts
11/15/2023, 1:40 PMIs there away to make the CMS block views (in the current 12 version) look nice without using Angular JS? We currently use a Content picker on some of the blocks which we need to use to get certain options in the CMS Block Grid (html) views.
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Sven Geusens
11/15/2023, 1:41 PMWhen configuring or displaying?
Sven Geusens
11/15/2023, 1:41 PMso the list on the property, or when you click on a block to fill in the data
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jonroberts
11/15/2023, 1:42 PMFor displaying
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Sven Geusens
11/15/2023, 1:43 PMthere is this package
https://marketplace.umbraco.com/package/umbraco.community.blockpreview
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jonroberts
11/15/2023, 1:47 PMThis looks great - thanks
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PascalEugster
11/15/2023, 3:23 PMI've recently worked a lot with the block preview plugin! It works awesome and hopefully something will come out of the box from the umbraco team! 🙂
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Aaron Sawyer
11/17/2023, 3:32 PMMy team actually built an in-house preview solution much like the block preview package, because at the time it didn’t exist. It’s funny to see how similar our solution was.
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