healthy drupal 7 upgrades
DESCRIPTION
Forum One will present lessons learned from a recent Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 migration of a complex, data-driven website – County Health Rankings & Roadmaps. During this webinar, you’ll learn: The costs and benefits of upgrading Drupal Tips for project planning and implementation Modules and techniques that will make your project go more smoothly You’ll leave with an understanding of the business and technical considerations you need to make a decision and make your upgrade a success.TRANSCRIPT
Forum One CommunicationsJune 13, 2013
Healthy Drupal 7 Upgrades
Housekeeping
We’ll send you a link to the archived webinar within a few days.
Please submit your ques;ons via the chat. We will have about 15 minutes for Q&A at the end of the webinar.
A Question for You!
Have you upgraded from Drupal 6 to 7?
If so, what problems did you run into?
Your Presenters
Jenn JohnsonProject Manager
Stein SetvikTechnical Lead
Andrew CohenSenior Advisor
Presenting the Patient
Diagnosis
DefinitionsUpda5ng: Typically refers to bringing your site up to the latest minor version of Drupal, e.g. such as upda;ng from Drupal 7.12 to Drupal 7.14.
Upgrading: Refers to moving from one major release to another, e.g., from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8.
Migra5ng: In this context, it generally means moving content or code from one version of Drupal to another.
Drupal Release HistoryVersion Release Date
4 June 2002
5 January 2007
6 February 2008
7 January 2011
8 December 2013?
Drupal 6 usage declining rapidly
Drupal 7 usage steadily increasing
Drupal Weekly Project Usage7.x
6.x
Should This Patient Upgrade?
New Features/Modules
• Popular common modules now in core
• Latest and greatest modules are 7+ only
•More flexible content types
•Any en;ty is fieldable
“Latest and Greatest” Watch
NaGaHaMa
Responsive Design
Why Not Wait for 8?
•Drupal 6 cannot be directly upgraded to Drupal 8, you must upgrade a Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 first.
•Drupal 8 will not be released or stabilized for quite some ;me.
•Drupal 7 is in its prime now.
CountyHealthRankings.org: 2012
Scrubbing In
Project Approach
Project Approach
Project Approach
Project Approach
Budgeting Tips
Surgery
Question
6 7
Migration options
update.php
migrate module
migrate_d2d module
migrate_d2d
Drupal to Drupal
Data Migra5on module
drupal.org/project/migrate_d2d
data but not structure Yes!
nodes
users
files
No
views
panels
nodequeues
The code...
Gotchas
6 7
#1: rows skipped
use drush
#2: files deleted
1. use migrate dev release
2. for file fields, add
$this->addFieldMapping('field_image:preserve_files')
->defaultValue(TRUE);
drupal.org/node/1676652
#3: dates disappear
patch date module
drupal.org/node/1832544
#4: field collections
patch field_collec5on module
drupal.org/node/1175082#comment-‐6833952
Search Engine Optimization
Post Op/Recovery
Prescription
Diagnosis is cri5cal
Planning ensures success
Use available surgical tools
Plan the recovery
