Content Migration: Quantum Leap Plone Conference 2008 Washington, DC October 10, 2008 Vitaliy Podoba http://quintagroup.com

Content Migration:

Quantum Leap

Plone Conference 2008

Washington, DC

October 10, 2008

Vitaliy Podoba

http://quintagroup.com

Vitaliy Podoba Plone Developer at Quintagroup.com piv (plone.org)‏ vipod (#plone irc channel)‏ Who am I?

Vitaliy Podoba

Plone Developer at Quintagroup.com

piv (plone.org)‏

vipod (#plone irc channel)‏

Plone Evolution

Plone Portal Migration http://plone.org/documentation/manual/upgrade-guide

Plone Portal Migration can fail loose control iterative (step-by-step) process no way back

can fail

loose control

iterative (step-by-step) process

no way back

Use Case: CMS.Info http://www.contentmanagementsoftware.info

Quantum Leap

GenericSetup Tres Seaver

Content Migration migrate only content clean database transform portal type on-the-fly manipulate/transform an exported XML transfer content back and forward and between different Plone versions

migrate only content

clean database

transform portal type on-the-fly

manipulate/transform an exported XML

transfer content back and forward

and between different Plone versions

Nothing is perfect PSPS 7826 : content import/export http://thread.gmane.org/ gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.devel/ 18968

CMFPlone GenericSetup CMFCore CMFTopic Archetypes & ATContentTypes Marshall What do we have?

CMFPlone

GenericSetup

CMFCore

CMFTopic

Archetypes & ATContentTypes

Marshall

AT content types: Folder ATDocument ATNewsItem AT schema fields: + UID + schema fields -- reference fields -- image/file fields CMF: type workflow history local roles

AT content types:

Folder

ATDocument

ATNewsItem

AT schema fields:

+ UID

+ schema fields

-- reference fields

-- image/file fields

CMF:

type

workflow history

local roles

The main task or what is missing transfer all standard types including topics with criteria transfer AT References transfer AT File fields transfer Properties (PropertyManager)‏ transfer Comments (Disscussion items)

transfer all standard types including topics with criteria

transfer AT References

transfer AT File fields

transfer Properties (PropertyManager)‏

transfer Comments (Disscussion items)

Possible Solutions collective.plone.gsxml Ramon Bartl Stefan Eletzhofer collective.transmogrifier plone.app.transmogrifier Martijn Pieters

collective.plone.gsxml

Ramon Bartl

Stefan Eletzhofer

collective.transmogrifier plone.app.transmogrifier

Martijn Pieters

The Solution quintagroup.transmogrifier http://svn.quintagroup.com/products

quintagroup.transmogrifier

http://svn.quintagroup.com/products

Some extra tasks SimpleBlog to Quills PloneFormMailer to PloneFormGen migrate Users and Members migrate portlets transfer RedirectionTool settings

SimpleBlog to Quills

PloneFormMailer to PloneFormGen

migrate Users and Members

migrate portlets

transfer RedirectionTool settings

Extra Solutions quintagroup.transmogrifier.simpleblog2quills quintagroup.transmogrifier.pfm2pfg other.packages.follow

quintagroup.transmogrifier.simpleblog2quills

quintagroup.transmogrifier.pfm2pfg

other.packages.follow

Roadmap content versions local permission settings blobs something else?

content versions

local permission settings

blobs

something else?

Links Plone Mailing List http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.devel/18968 Plone Feature Request http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7826 CMS.Info http://www.contentmanagementsoftware.info collective.transmogrifier http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/collective.transmogrifier collective.plone.gsxml http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.plone.gsxml/0.4.5 Quintagroup Repository http://svn.quintagroup.com/products

Plone Mailing List http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.devel/18968

Plone Feature Request http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7826

CMS.Info http://www.contentmanagementsoftware.info

collective.transmogrifier http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/collective.transmogrifier

collective.plone.gsxml http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.plone.gsxml/0.4.5

Quintagroup Repository http://svn.quintagroup.com/products

Questions