Ben,
It was a few months ago now amd i can not remember all the details, it
was a one-off, only had 1 site to go from V3 to V5 and did not keep
good documentation.
I did some of the importing direct in the database using SELECT
INTO ...
Other content types that required a little more work using code
similar to this:
<cfset objImage = CreateObject
("component","#application.types.dmImage.typepath#")>
<!--- get v3 content --->
<cfquery name="qV3" datasource="#application.dsn#">
SELECT *
FROM v3_dmImage
</cfquery>
<!--- import to V5 --->
<cfloop query="qV3">
<cfset stProps = structNew()>
<cfset stProps.objectID = qV3.objectID>
<cfset stProps.label = qV3.label>
<cfset stProps.alt = qV3.alt>
...
...
<!--- repeat for all properties to be imported --->
...
...
<cfset crtImage = objImage.setData(stProperties=stProps)>
</cfloop>
>From memory the 2 areas where there was the most differences between
V3 and V5 for the content import were the security and categories.
For the security I used the code in the Farcry Upgrade
<cfset application.security = createobject
("component","farcry.core.packages.security.security").init() />
<cfset migrateresult = createobject
("component","farcry.core.packages.security.FarcryUD").migrate() />
I cannot find teh code i used for the categories, but it was nothing
too complex.
Oh, and friendly URLs, these are different in V5, so I set new FURLs
and also created redirects FURLs for the old FURLs.
Chris.
On Oct 1, 2:24 pm, Ben Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a "best practice" way to import content? Is it a manual
> process? is it a lot of effort to script the data across into the new
> structure?
>
> (The site i'm working on has a lot of content.
>
> Duncan - my notes are up on the wiki, look under "More rough notes on
> upgrading":http://docs.farcrycms.org/display/FCDEV40/Upgrading+from+Earlier+Vers...
>
> the wiki doesn't allow the best formatting options, so copy and paste
> 'em into word for readability.
>
> B.
>
> On Oct 1, 7:34 pm, Chris Kent <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Duncan,
>
> > An alternative approach to upgrading from V3 to V4 and then V5 would
> > be to create a new V5 site and import in your content.
>
> > I did this recently on a site where a lot of old legacy code/
> > functionality was no longer required so it was the best option to
> > start with a new clean V5 site and import the require content.
>
> > Chris.
>
> > On Oct 1, 12:13 pm, duncane <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi Ben - i'd be really interested in getting a copy of your notes on
> > > your v3 to v4 upgrade - would you be able to email me a copy? I'm
> > > having upgrade one of our sites next week - we're planning on going
> > > from v3 to v4 and then on to v5.
>
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Duncan
>
> > > On Oct 1, 8:45 am, Ben Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > scratch that - have resolved using COAPI deployment.
>
> > > > On Oct 1, 12:20 pm, Ben Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > I'm half way through an upgrade from V3 to V4 - I've got a document
> > > > > with some notes that I'll add to the wiki when I'm done.
>
> > > > > After running updates b400 and b401, I've just encountered an error
> > > > > where dmHTML didn't contain a field called catHTML.
>
> > > > > I've gotten around it by adding this field as a varchar(512) - what
> > > > > should it be? what's it for?
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