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2. Design Overhaul
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Downfallguild.org is moving from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7! This project will help manage that.

It’s time to make downfallguild.org realize a lot more of it’s potential. We're moving to Drupal 7 and the primary goal is to migrate content, refactor functionality and simplify across the board.

Approach

After trying to do a straight upgrade on the existing site, it was determined we'd port content into a fresh Drupal 7 install instead. Mainly using the Migrate, Migrate D2D, and Features, we can build up a much cleaner platform - and remove 5 years of cruft and fluff.

• The custom migrate module is migratedf
• The custom features module is migratedf_features

Useful commands

• Use rsync (from within local/htdocs/downfal/d6) to PULL FROM REMOTE: rsync -zvr [email protected]:webapps/downfall_drupal/ ./
• Zip all and hidden files from downfall dir to temp proj folder on server (after ssh in): tar cvzf ~/projects/df-up/df_files.tar.gz ~/webapps/downfall_drupal/

Important links

• Commonly implemented migration methods: prepareRow(), prepare(), complete(), createStub();

Repository Explanation

First off, we're using subtrees for Drupal 7, PatternLab and the original Drupal 6 existing site. See this article for how to use subtrees.

Folder structure

Migration Outline

See the list here for D2D migrations (bottom).

1. Input formats - DONE
2. Role migration - DONE
3. User migration - DONE
4. File migration - DONE
   • ensure that the folder "d6files" is symlinked from the original d6 site
   • may require this patch to Migrate: http://drupal.org/node/1901648
5. User Picture migration - DONE
   • may require this patch to Migrate: http://drupal.org/node/1901648
6. Taxonomy term migration - DONE
7. Node migration
   • Blogs - DONE
   • Pages - DONE, merged to Article
   • Stories - DONE, merged to Article
   • Guild apps - DONE, includes image field mapping (POSSIBLY move to Media module for images once it's working below)
   • Forum Posts - DONE, a little re-org is necessary (at term level).
     • Migrate module has a shitty time with line 1234ish (if (!$destids)) ..., comment out to continue
   • Events - DONE, both old types merged into new Event type
   • Book pages - DONE, All content comes over BUT Hierarchy is not, fix query to set.
   • Images (nodes from Image module)
     • setting the d6files symlink is very important
     • The image_assist embeds are now handled with a parent class that filters to media json
     • Remove all the Image "gallery grid, preview, thumbnail" file entries (after full migration)
   • Organic Groups (raids)
     • UPDATE 10/9/2013: Just make a migration that runs a query, creates nodes, assigns users/content. Should probably run first.
     • THIS REQUIRES UPGRADING OG IN D6 TO THE LATEST VERSION
     • We have to copy the og d6 tables to the DRUPAL 7 database, possibly, og_migrate_api() in og.module.
     • D6 tables it's looking for: demo_d6 > d6_og, demo_og_ui > d6_og_ui, demo_og_ancestry > d6_og_ancestry
     • Basically, OG migrate is looking for tables IN our database, it's not connecting to external database. Might be able to get around this with more experiments.
     • Must delete og rows in field_config_instance, otherwise, can't enable og after uninstalling
8. Comment migration - ALL COMMENTS NEED image_assist solved first (so all Image migrated)
   • Blog
   • Pages
   • Stories
   • Guild apps
   • Forums posts
   • Events
   • Book pages - A lot of nodes do not exist, fixing above
   • Images
   • Organic groups
9. Menu migration