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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

Running the import with the tamper plugin


We're now ready to run our import again, this time using our tamper plugin on the hq_city field. We're going to simply update all of our previously imported nodes by re-running the import process. We'll then check our imported nodes to confirm that all of the hq_city values are composed of words in initial capital. We can confirm this by comparing our CSV data to the imported data specifically on any values that are all capitals. They should change to be initial capital on the import process and show the same changed value on our node. For example, on this node for 119th CES/CEF, notice that the hq_city value is set to FARGO. Once we re-run the import to update this node, the tamper plugin should make this value initial capital and then lowercase.

To run our import again, go to your import URL and click on the Fire Department Importer link. Now scroll down and click on the Import button. The import process will run an update. Once the process finishes...