This document outlines the challenges and strategies associated with content migration in Plone, specifically referencing methods to upgrade and manage content during the migration process. Vitaliy Podoba discusses tools like quintagroup.transmogrifier and collective.plone.gsxml for transferring content types and properties between different versions of Plone. The document includes links to resources and solutions to common migration issues encountered in CMS transitions.

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

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

4. Plone Evolution

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

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

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

8. Quantum Leap

9. GenericSetup Tres Seaver

10. 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

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

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

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

14. 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)

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

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

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

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

19. Roadmap content versions local permission settings blobs something else?

20. 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

21. Questions