Automating updates to this extension about com.iatspayments.civicrm HOT 3 CLOSED

I believe you are incorrect and I think that forum topic is muddying the waters. The extension architecture defines a way to provide db updates to your extension, and I've been using it for a while now. A message will pop up and allow the site manager to trigger the db updates (by agreeing to them), which are defined in the extension.

As I understand it, that forum topic is really talking about how to trigger refreshes to the civicrm tables that provide the extensions their platform and integration into CiviCRM.

The next major version update (the 1.3 series) does have some db updates.

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The pop window does show up, and if I click it then the iATS extension does then do its database updates. The issue is I do not want to manually login to each client site that I host and click on a pop up message. I already have a PHP script that I use to automate updates to extensions. The only thing that is not automated is the pop-up window that appears in the GUI that requires a human being to click it.

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Ah, so that's an issue with the extension architecture rather than this extension.

Like Drupal, CiviCRM doesn't like to do potentially dangerous things without someone paying attention (e.g. db updates ...). In general, that's a good thing, and also, at least in Drupal, there is a solution for the issue you've got, which is for site hosts that manage lots of sites (which I do also, incidently).

The solution in Drupal of course is drush, and I would imagine there is or could be or should be a similar solution in Civicrm. Posting to the civicrm forum would be the right place to continue this discussion.

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