Question about upgrade from v3.8 to v5

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i’m currently on v3.8 running a few api endpoints, scripts and dashboards that has like 20 pages. with a few modules in the background, if I wanted to update to v5 do I have to rewrite all the dashboard pages since it uses apps now? trying to gauge how much legwork would upgrading require.

thanks

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I haven’t tested v5 yet but just moving from 3.8.4 to 4.2.21 we did have to rework and debug a fair amount of code. It really depends on your particular implementation. URL parameters changed some time around 3.9 to prevent injection attacks, for example, and that was one thing we had to fix.

You’ll also have to change how your dashboard loads its pages, as that changed in 4.x with the addition of Get-UDPage. That will be the first thingto fix, as before we modified our code it wouldn’t deploy at all.

Here’s an example of how our main .ps1 file looks now:

$AppParams = @{
    Title = 'Our Dashboard'
    Theme = . "$Repository\themes\theme.ps1"
    Stylesheets = '/assets/global_styles.css'
    Pages = foreach ($Page in (Get-ChildItem -Path "$AppRoot\pages").BaseName) {
        Get-UDPage -Name $Page
    }
}

New-UDApp @AppParams

I will say it was 100% worth it. Happy upgrading!