Migration: The Drupal Shape Making Machine

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You’ve got great ideas about how to improve the architecture of your site in Drupal 8, but how are you going to migrate all of that Drupal 7 data into the right places?

Think of Drupal migration as a clay shape making machine. Pick the shape of your Drupal 8 site data, put your Drupal 7 data clay into the machine and press the lever until it works!

We will cover various scenarios where your data doesn’t match up 1 to 1 between your Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 sites and how to use migration magic to save the day.

Topics that will be covered:

  • Getting started with Drupal migration
  • Troubleshooting techniques
  • Example solutions including:
    • Field type and entity type conversions
    • New fields
    • Multiple entity generation

Program tags

architecture, back end development

Experience Level

Intermediate

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