Drupal 8 Migration Strategy August 2018 Lynne Walsh Senior - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Drupal 8 Migration Strategy August 2018

Lynne Walsh Senior Technical Content Strategist, CHIEF lynne.walsh@agencychief.com

Where to Start Inventory

Number of: ● urls (how many pages) What is an ● taxonomy terms (how they are organized) inventory? ● site directories (how many site sections there are) Like an inventory of a library, an inventory of a website includes: ● user accounts (who’s updating the site) ● f iles and assets (pdfs, images, video etc.)

Compiling Your Inventory Database Site Crawl Get a copy of your database and pull counts for: Run a site crawl using Screaming Frog to count: ● Content Types ● Nodes ● Directories ● Taxonomy ● File links ● Images ● Users *Don’t forget to compare your results to look for Orphan Pages

Map It

Take it By Type

Mapping Spreadsheets

You don’t need to be a developer to put this spreadsheet together. You just need to know where to look.

Where to Look

Migration Types

4 Types of Migration Sources Scripted Migration Manual Migration 1 3 Database to 4 CSV to Database Database Good ol’ Copy & Paste 2 API to Database

Scripted Migration Move data from one database into 1 Database to another, Database using coded files that direct where the data should go and how . 2 *can also be applied to API migrations *API to Database

Scripted Migration Move data from a CSV into a database, 3 using coded files that direct CSV to Database where the data should go and how .

Manual Migration Move data by hand . Copy and Paste , 4 directly into the wysiwyg Good ol’ Copy & Paste in the new site.

Database to Database (scripted) How to Choose? Manual CSV to (good ol’ Database copy and (scripted) paste)

To determine how to One Section at a approach a migration, take Time it content type by content type.

Examples Blog content types typically have: Page content types typically have: ● Consistent fields; ● Small amount of content; ● Consistent functionality; ● Varying layout; ● High number of nodes. ● Varying functionality. Therefore, the fastest option is Therefore, the best option is to scripting the blog content type. migrate page content by hand to ensure that any tweaks that need to be made are caught early.

Resourcing Think about your team.

• Developer Heavy limited Consider The strategist support but lots of developers. Consider scripting. Players • Developer support is present but limited. Rely on your strategists to handle some Who is on your Team? manual migration so your dev can spend their time where they are needed most. • Diverse Team. Lot’s of strategists, copy editors, UX, and developers. Consider splitting work up between people to divide and conquer.

Consider the Rate How fast can your team manually migrate.

Recycle Your Code Scripts are written field by field and this code can be reused. Talk to your developers about the code they’ve used before and avoid having to start from scratch.

• Types of fields in each content type. Plain text vs. formatted text Talk to Your (like a WYSIWYG). Developer • Make sure there is a migration plan for any unique functionality (calendars, video, Run through the results of the php code, things brought in via inventory & make note of the iframe). following: • How taxonomy used on the site.

Questions?

Helpful Resource ● Migration Mapping Spreadsheet