Hi Juan Manuel,

The DBUpdate-to-3.1.pl script is designed to take ALL the free fields from 
ticket and article and transform them into Dynamic Fields, so if the fields you 
have for Building and Location are standard otrs free fields (e.g. 
TicketFreeText2, TicketFreeText15, etc) they will be converted (including their 
values)... That's the main idea of this script ;-)

If the fields are not standard otrs free fields (I mean if you have customized 
the screens and add columns to the database to have something like 
TicketFreeText17 or TicketFreeText32) for sure the script will not migrate this 
kind of customizations.

Please notice that the configuration of the Dynamic Fields is different from 
the Free Fields, while the screen configuration (to display or hide Dynamic 
Fields per screen) is still in the sysconfig (and should be also migrated with 
the script), the Dynamic Field configuration is in a separated screen in the 
Admin Panel, with this new screen you can manage your fields, you can add or 
edit fields.

If your fields are defined as dropdown (a list of predefined values) you can 
choose in the field configuration if you want to translate the values or not, 
otherwise if the fields are defined just as input boxes (Dynamic Field type: 
Text) the values are not translated.

Also notice that if the script detects that an old free field is not in use it 
will mark it as disabled Dynamic Field, but the rest of migration process will 
be the same.

I hope this clarify your questions.

While we have been testing the upgrade process and the particularly the script 
, I still recommend to backup the database before the upgrade and/or first 
migrate a test system before touching the production instance.
   
((enjoy))

Carlos Rodríguez




On May 17, 2012, at 3:19 AM, Juan Manuel Clavero Almirón wrote:

> Hi all,
> although OTRS 3.1 has been out for some time, I’ve started looking into it 
> this week, in order to safe upgrade our systems.
> Currently, we are using 2 freetext fields to store the current location of 
> the customer: one for the building and the other for the location inside this 
> building. Our buildings have names in our local language and there’s no point 
> in translating them.
> I’ve seen there is the script scripts/DBUpdate-to-3.1.pl, which moves the 
> freetext stored in ticket table to dynamic field values. But it seems to me 
> that it will only move the free text fields that OTRS uses (i.e. Decision 
> Result and Due Date).
> Am I right?
> If so, Would it be difficult to grab the free text config in 3.0 and insert 
> into dynamic fields in 3.1?
>  
> Kind regards,
> Juan Clavero Almirón
>  
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