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Migrating to Drupal 7

By : Trevor James
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Migrating to Drupal 7

By: Trevor James

Overview of this book

<p>This book will show you how to migrate your content into the Drupal content management system. You&rsquo;ll start by building a content type in Drupal to hold your migrated content. You&rsquo;ll then import your content into Drupal using the Feeds module. In order to be able to easily use them again and again, you will also learn the best methods of maintaining and packaging migration configurations.<br /><br />In "Migrating to Drupal 7" you&rsquo;ll learn how to quickly package your legacy site&rsquo;s data into a format that&rsquo;s easy to import into Drupal. You&rsquo;ll then build a content type to hold migrated data in Drupal. To save time and hassle you will learn how to import content into Drupal using the Feeds module. You&rsquo;ll then get a brief introduction to the Migrate module and its powerful features.<br /><br />With this guide you&rsquo;ll also learn how to upgrade your Drupal 6 website to Drupal 7 in short, simple steps. You&rsquo;ll also learn how to package your configuration code in Drupal using the powerful Features module.<br /><br />In "Migrating to Drupal 7" you&rsquo;ll start by collecting your current site&rsquo;s content and packaging it up into a CSV file so you can easily import it into Drupal. You&rsquo;ll then build a content type to hold your migrated data and content. <br /><br />Mastering migrations using the Feeds module will be the next invaluable tutorial before you get a closer look at the Migrate module&rsquo;s powerful features. You&rsquo;ll then upgrade your Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 and use helper modules to help run the upgrade faster and with less hassle. This book will then take you through the process of migrating CCK-based Drupal 6 fields to Drupal 7 using the Content Migrate module. <br /><br />Using the Features module you will then package up our Feeds importer and content types into code to help you to build an easily maintainable and flexible Drupal website with.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Migrating to Drupal 7
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Maintaining a Migration Path
8
Migrating Content from Earlier Drupal Versions
Index

Chapter 5. Maintaining a Migration Path

Now that we have our content type and importer configured and we have successfully imported all of our content and data, we should start thinking about how best to maintain our workflow and migration process over time. This will be especially important if we are going to be running additional imports in the future to update our data and content. This may occur if we're actively developing a website with some of the imported content, but we need to append new content later to our site from an existing legacy website. In this case we'll need to continue to use our Feeds importer or build a new importer that can add and append data to the content we've already imported into our site.

We also may want to quickly build another content type based on the original type we set up in the earlier chapter and also re-use an existing importer with our new content type. We might also want to add a new field to our content type to collect more imported data. This...