Drupal 6 - 7A case study of a Drupal 6 to 7 migration

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The history

A very old Drupal 6 site

Key features“CPD” system for membersOnline course/results registrationEventsJobs

Why migrate?

Drupal 6 EOL24th February 2016

Newer theme

Wanted to extend online tools

Our plan(Because everything goes to plan)

Website migration?

What could go wrong?!

Plan ahead!- Research modules- Discuss order to import- Client content audit(aka – what do you not still need?)

- Migrate- Design & develop features- Launch

Key points- Legacy content- “CPD” system for members- Online course/results registration- Events- Content vital to their status

Migrate (d.o/project/migrate)- Migrate users, roles, pages, webforms- Alex did this (sorry Alex!)

The outcome

Content migration- Kind of worked for basic node content and Views, too- Some taxonomies missing- File attachments

Views- Import/export tools worked really well!

Newer, responsive design

Pain points- Content migration (expected!)- Shear bulk of content, especially files- Legacy content vs responsive

Questions?

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