Upgrading Your Collect!

Collect!'s upgrading procedure has been streamlined. The automated upgrade procedure, available in Collect! Version 11.4 and newer, enables you to upgrade your Collect! system with very few steps. In most cases, upgrades will take a fraction of the time it took to manually upgrade, using database export and upgrading procedures.

Please review the topic for your Collect! Version.

Upgrading Your Collect! Version 11

This topic walks you through the steps to upgrade your Collect! Version 11.2 or Version 11.3 to Collect! Version 11.5 using the automated upgrade procedure.

If you are running Collect! Version 11.4, you can simply apply the latest Version 11.5 patch to your Collect! system. A full upgrade is not necessary.

Upgrading Your Collect! Version 11_0 or Version 11_1

This topic walks you through the steps to upgrade your Collect! Version 11.0 or Version 11.1 to Collect! Version 11.5 using the automated upgrade procedure.

Upgrading Your Collect! Version 8

This topic walks you through the steps to upgrade your Collect! Version 8 to Collect! Version 11.5 using the automated upgrade procedure.

Upgrading Your Collect! Version 10

This topic walks you through the steps to upgrade your Collect! Version 10 to Collect! Version 11.5 using the automated upgrade procedure.

Upgrading Your Collect! Version 7

This topic walks you through the steps to upgrade your Collect! Version 7 to Collect! Version 8.0.22 as one of the necessary steps to the latest released Collect! Version.

Upgrading Your Collect! Version 5

This topic walks you through the steps to upgrade your Collect! Version 5 to Collect! Version 7 as one of the necessary steps to the latest released Collect! Version.

Manual Upgrade Topics

Links to help topics for manually upgrading Collect!. These steps have been replaced by Collect!'s automated upgrade procedure, available in Collect! Version 11.4 and newer The manual upgrade procedures may be used if you really need to condense or defrag your database to the smallest possible size.

Upgrading Topics

Links to all upgrading topics.

Custom Upgrade for Technicians

This topic explains ways to optimize the upgrade process if you are administering a large database.