1. “Feeds is my Friend”
A Tale of Heroes and Villains
in a
Drupal 6 to 7 Migration
December 5, 2013: GT Build Day
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2. “Feeds
is my
Friend”
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3. The Heroes (modules)
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4. The Heroes
• Views (latest version 3.x) and Views Data Export (need
for Drupal 6 site, so you can export data in a useful format).
• Feeds, Feeds Xpath Parser, Feeds Tamper
(need for Drupal 7 site, so can ingest data; may need patch
at https://drupal.org/comment/7620089#comment-7620089).
• Features
(Best way to export Feeds Importers from Dev to Prod in D7)
• Masquerade
(to pretend to be user #1, if can’t get access to import views,
etc. Don’t leave “on” for Prod!)
• QA process (not a module, how to compare old & new data)
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5. The Villains (field/entity types)
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6. The Villains
• Taxonomy & Multiple values
• Users
• Text Input Formats
• Dates
• Pathauto
• Menus
• Attached files/images
• Sequence (what to do first)
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7. The Tale of Two Sites (demo)
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8. Learn MORE
http://drupal.gatech.edu/handbook/mi
grating-drupal-7
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9. What did I forget to mention?
??
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10. Standard AdelleFrank.com DISCLAIMER
This material is for entertainment and recreational purposes
only, and any accidental learning or instruction that occurs is
outside of its scope and may not be prosecuted.
This presentation and all comments, jokes, asides, cabbages,
examples, etc. expressed therein are of my own making and in
no way represent the policy or opinions of the Georgia Institute
of Technology, any other USG employee, my sentient personal
computing devices, Starfleet Command, my adorable dog
Jasper, or any other terrestrial or extraterrestrial Entity (not
THAT kind of entity!).
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