GraffitiCMS - Migration from Community Server 2007
Saturday, April 26 2008 - community-server, gaffiticms
We I thought that I was finally ready to do the Data Migration.. I had played around with the Setup and install, then looked at the way the system worked. Next I dug into the basic themes and moved them around. The final task was to see if I could get my Blog data from the Community Server 2007 system into the Graffiti CMS System.
To start off I needed to make sure that I had Backups of both code bases and Data, just in case. But the good thing is that I was doing this test across the two development systems that I have, this way if it didn't work no one would have known.
When using the migration tools that are included in the base install all I needed was the connection string to the Community Server 2007 Database and the Application Key that I was migrating from. In the case of my Community Server system it was the name of the blog. For example the Blog address in Community Server was <SiteURL>/Blogs/Mykre so the Application key was Mykre.
Then when you run the tool, the system connects to the Community Server 2007 Database and pulls back all of the post information for you, at this point you would select what Graffiti CMS Category you would like the posts added to as well as the Owner of the Posts. At the point that the posts have finished being collected you are given the choice of what posts you would like to migrate.
When finished the migration is almost complete, the last stage is to install a simple plugin that will allow the old Community Server 2007 Link format to redirect to the new Blog Posts.
I still have not finished yet, with my current site I have several Content files or Articles that I link to in several places. What I now need to do is work out how to recreate those and relink so that they can be migrated with out any problem.
