Jan Mevißens talk about a developed migrator in plone. An alternative approach to migrate Archetypes to Dexterity.

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LOST IN MIGRATION
A FLEXIBLE APPROACH TO CONTENT
MIGRATION IN PLONE

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WHO WE ARE
Jan
 Full service agency since 1998, Cologne/Germany
 Open source development, content management,
online marketing
 Websites, portals, intranets
 Spezialisation in health care and non-profit
organizations

3. 1. Why another migration tool for Plone?
2. What does the migrator do?
3. Some code and real life examples
4. To do and questions
MY TALK
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4. WHY ANOTHER MIGRATION TOOL?
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Goal: Migrate Archetypes to Dexterity
• atct_migrator in most cases the right tool
• “How to upgrade sites to Plone 5” from Philip Bauer

5. LOST IN MIGRATION - EXAMPLE
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• Plone 3.3.5
• More than 20 000 items
• Custom content types
• Usage of archetypes.schemaextender
• Merging of content from different sites
• Cluster of five sites sharing a mounted zeo (uninstallable)

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Pro:
• content directly to newer Plone
• own types without mapping already matching fields
• archetypes.schemaextender data
• content to different site
• from a live system worry-free
• new and clean database

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Contra:
• only content is migrated
• References have to be migrated at second run

9. WHAT HAPPENED WITH OUR EXAMPLE:
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• approach worked in our special case
• perfomance was okay -> 18 000 items in about 50 min.
• we were happy, our customer was happy
• and a better performing website

10. EXAMPLES
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1. Migration of a whole website
2. Migration of an individual content type (News Item)

11. CODE SAMPLE
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12. CONCLUSION & TO DO
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• interaktiv.migrator is in beta
• target audience: developers
• does not work yet for collections
• only migrates from Archetypes to Dexterity
• no migration of "resolve uid" links yet
• better documentation / testing / refactoring

13. YOUR QUESTIONS?
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Interested in this project?
Talk to us at the conference
Or contact me at:
mevissen@interaktiv.de
https://github.com/jmevissen/interaktiv.migrator
https://github.com/jmevissen/interaktiv.migrator_p3
Or….
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