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 =====Disadvantages of Greenstone3=====
-As Greenstone3 is still in its early stages of development, a number of problems and bugs remain. If your Greenstone2 collections do not work under Greenstone3, or if you are experiencing some unexpected behavior from Greenstone3, please read this list before contacting us.
-  *   **Conversion of ''collect.cfg'' **  Greenstone3 still uses Greenstone2-style ''collect.cfg'' files internally, and converts these to Greenstone3-style [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML XML]] files called ''colletionConfig.xml''. Unfortunately, the conversion is not always perfect, and may cause some unexpected errors with your collection. As development continues, the conversions will get better. Eventually, Greenstone3 will work solely with ''collectionConfig.xml'' files, eliminating the need for this problematic conversion process.
+  * If you have heavily modified macros/format statements using greenstone 2 then it can be tricky to achieve the same thing in Greenstone3. However, Greenstone 3 is much more customizable once you do know how.
-  *   **Collections sometimes disappear after changes to format statements**  After changing a format statement in a collection, the collection may become unavailable.  This is because the conversion of the ''collect.cfg'' file after the new format statement is introduced produces a ''collectionConfig.xml'' file containing malformed XML. A collection cannot be hosted in Greenstone3 without a valid ''collectionConfig.xml'' file, so the collection disappears from the library. The solution is to undo the edits which caused the problem.
+  *   **Need to click preview after changes to format statements**  Unlike in Greenstone2, the collectionConfiguration file is loaded into memory when the library server starts up. Changes to the file require the collection to be reloaded in Greenstone, or the server restarted. Clicking the "preview collection" in GLI will do this for you.
-  *   **Need to click preview after changes to format statements**  Unlike in Greenstone2, format statements are not applied automatically to their collections. To apply changes to format statements, you must click the 'Preview' button in the GLI to invoke an internal conversion script which applies the changes.
+  *   **Export to CD/DVD-ROM**  Exporting collections to CD-ROM and DVD-ROM is not supported in Greenstone3's GLI. However you can make a DVD yourself, see [[ http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:user:exporting_collections#can_greenstone3_export_to_cd_dvd-rom_collections|this page]].
-  *   **Nested ''if''s and ''or''s**  At this stage, Greenstone3 can only handle ''if'' and ''or'' statements in its format strings which don't contain other ''if'' and ''or'' statements. If you try to nest ''if'' or ''or'' statements, some of the control characters (like the curly brace '{') will be interpreted as literal characters and will appear on the pages of your collection.
-  *   **Refresh Error in the GLI**  After building a new collection in GLI, it may not appear in your Greenstone library. If this happens, check that your **Greenstone Web Path** is set correctly (File -> Preferences... -> Greenstone Web Path). For the default installation, this should be set to ''<nowiki>http://localhost:8080/greenstone3</nowiki>''
-  *   **Export to CD/DVD-ROM**  Exporting collections to CD-ROM and DVD-ROM is not supported in Greenstone3.