Forum One will present lessons learned from a recent Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 migration of a complex, data-driven website – County Health Rankings & Roadmaps. During this webinar, you’ll learn: The costs and benefits of upgrading Drupal Tips for project planning and implementation Modules and techniques that will make your project go more smoothly You’ll leave with an understanding of the business and technical considerations you need to make a decision and make your upgrade a success.

1. Forum One Communications
June 13, 2013
Healthy Drupal 7 Upgrades

2. Housekeeping
We’ll
send
you
a
link
to
the
archived
webinar
within
a
few
days.
Please
submit
your
ques;ons
via
the
chat.
We
will
have
about
15
minutes
for
Q&A
at
the
end
of
the
webinar.

3. A Question for You!
Have
you
upgraded
from
Drupal
6
to
7?
If
so,
what
problems
did
you
run
into?

4. Your Presenters
Jenn
Johnson
Project
Manager
Stein
Setvik
Technical
Lead
Andrew
Cohen
Senior
Advisor

5. Presenting the Patient

10. Diagnosis

11. Definitions
Upda5ng:
Typically
refers
to
bringing
your
site
up
to
the
latest
minor
version
of
Drupal,
e.g.
such
as
upda;ng
from
Drupal
7.12
to
Drupal
7.14.
Upgrading:
Refers
to
moving
from
one
major
release
to
another,
e.g.,
from
Drupal
7
to
Drupal
8.
Migra5ng:
In
this
context,
it
generally
means
moving
content
or
code
from
one
version
of
Drupal
to
another.

12. Drupal Release History
Version Release
Date
4 June
2002
5 January
2007
6 February
2008
7 January
2011
8 December
2013?

13. Drupal
6
usage
declining
rapidly
Drupal
7
usage
steadily
increasing
Drupal Weekly Project Usage
7.x
6.x

14. Should This Patient Upgrade?

15. New Features/Modules
•Popular
common
modules
now
in
core
•Latest
and
greatest
modules
are
7+
only
•More
flexible
content
types
•Any
en;ty
is
fieldable

16. “Latest and Greatest” Watch
NaGaHaMa

17. Responsive Design

18. Why Not Wait for 8?
•Drupal
6
cannot
be
directly
upgraded
to
Drupal
8,
you
must
upgrade
a
Drupal
6
site
to
Drupal
7
first.
•Drupal
8
will
not
be
released
or
stabilized
for
quite
some
;me.
•Drupal
7
is
in
its
prime
now.

19. CountyHealthRankings.org:
2012

20. Scrubbing In

21. Project Approach

22. Project Approach

23. Project Approach

24. Project Approach

25. Budgeting Tips

26. Surgery

27. Question
6 7

28. Migration options
update.php
 migrate
module
 migrate_d2d
module

29. migrate_d2d
Drupal
to
Drupal
Data
Migra5on
module
drupal.org/project/migrate_d2d

30. data but not structure
Yes!
nodes
users
files
No
views
panels
nodequeues

31. The code...

33. Gotchas
6 7

34. #1: rows skipped
use
drush

35. #2: files deleted
1.
use
migrate
dev
release
2.
for
file
fields,
add
$this->addFieldMapping('field_image:preserve_files')
->defaultValue(TRUE);
drupal.org/node/1676652

36. #3: dates disappear
patch
date
module
drupal.org/node/1832544

37. #4: field collections
patch
field_collec5on
module
drupal.org/node/1175082#comment-­‐6833952

38. Search Engine Optimization

39. Post Op/Recovery

44. Prescription
Diagnosis
is
cri5cal
Planning
ensures
success
Use
available
surgical
tools
Plan
the
recovery

45. Thank You
acohen@forumone.com
jjohnson@forumone.com
ssetvik@forumone.com