I tried this extension out on our test server where we are simulating upgrading from 7.1.2 to 7.4. It looks like it will be a very helpful tool in converting to the new nested pages scheme. One thing I did notice is that one of our wikis that had a lot of nested pages under a space would never show the migration plan. It was as though it was frozen.
Charlie -----Original Message----- From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Delhumeau Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 2:43 AM To: XWiki Users <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] A tool to convert terminal pages to Nested Pages No opinion ? Thanks, 2016-01-20 9:53 GMT+01:00 Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau < [email protected]>: > Hello, users of XWiki! > > I just have released the first version (alpha) of a new application to > help you convert your existing (terminal) pages to nested pages after > an upgrade to a recent wiki (7.4.x is the targeted version). > > This tool is available and can be installed directly with Extension > Manager. All informations are there: > > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Nested+Pages+Migr > ator+Application > > The application *does not currently apply the migration*. It only > computes a plan which say what actions should be done. The purpose, > right now, is only to test the tool without affecting any wiki. > > There is an option to simply convert your pages to nested pages > (Space.Page => Space.Page.WebHome) so they can have children (which > they cannot while being terminal). But, by default, the migrator tries > to preserve the existing hierarchy of pages (based on the "parent" > field of each page) by moving the pages under their parent page. So if > you have SpaceA.PageA with SpaceB.PageB as parent, the proposed > migration will be SpaceA.PageA => SpaceB.PageB.PageA.WebHome. > > In the future, the plan will also contain actions for preserving the > configured preferences (right now, if a page is moved, all the > preferences from its previous space are not applied to it anymore), and rights. > > This version is a first step in order to have a very complete tool. A > design document have been written with more informations ( > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/UpgradeToNestedPages). > > I would love to see some of you testing this application, the user > interface, and judging the proposed plans. Don't hesitate to give your > feedbacks. Please tell me if you have other ideas that I have not > listed in the design document, like features that I have not think about. > > Thanks a lot, > -- > Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development > Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project > -- Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
