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Migrate Organic Groups Membership

Posted by Hani Atalla on Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 10:47 Development, Drupal Drupal, data migration, migrate module, organic groups

In a previous blog, we discussed Function1’s latest Drupal project: migrating a Jive system running on PostgreSQL database to Drupal.  The target Drupal site was using the Organic Groups module to organize content (the usual node types: blog, story, page, discussion, etc.) in Spaces (the Organic Group lingo for a “Group”). In migrating content to Drupal we used the migrate module. Adding space/group memberships was a...

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A Direct Migration of WordPress to Drupal 8

Posted by David Thompson on Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 09:07 Best Practices, Drupal Drupal 8, Drupal Core, Content Migration, Migration, data migration, Big data, Data On-boarding, Data

Migrations from WordPress to Drupal are required when customers are standardizing on Drupal to ease institutional IT staffing requirements, or they just want the many additional customization capabilities built into Drupal.  Here is how to migrate your WordPress data directly into Drupal 8 using the Migrate API.

Here is one workflow to get started quickly …

1.    Setup your D8 site (drupal-8-0-5) locally.  This blog post assumes your WP site is already setup on your local environment....

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Jive to Drupal Migration

Posted by Hani Atalla on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 10:04 Best Practices, Development, Drupal jive, migrate module, postgresql, Drupal, data migration

Recently, Function1 was engaged to perform a Jive migration project to Drupal 7 and specifically the Open Atrium 2.0 distribution since Jive is a communication and collaboration platform. As a team, we are familiar with Open Atrium and have used it few times on multiple projects and know its different content types. The challenge was in grabbing the data from the PostgreSQL database, which had close to 300 tables, and formulating the data source to map to the target Open Atrium content types.

In performing the migration, we extended the Drupal Migrate...

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