[TYPO3-templavoila] migration to templavoila_framework

[Ron Hall]

Thanks, Andi,

I imagine you have more experience than any of us on migrations like this. Thanks for sharing.

Ron Hall



On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Andreas Becker wrote:

> Hi Thomas
> 
> we did today several conversion and as it was quite boring and we not really
> were so much motivated to convert sites which still where never updated vrom
> 2004 and 2006 we did the following to make it much much faster and our life
> much much relaxter
> 
> Setup a WEC Starter Package.
> 
> and than make .t3ds of your existing content branches (if the site is very
> big) or even the whole site from root (exclude the old default main
> template!). They can even be bigger than 30 or 40 MB but than you need to
> upload them direct into fileadmin/_temp
> 
> As a next step you simply import all your .t3ds again into the WEC Starter
> Package just below the rootpage. It is quite easy now to move around the
> branches with drag and drop and so you can repaste your site structure.
> 
> This way we were able today to convert a multilingual site (german/english)
> and standard templating to propper utf8 and inserting all elements including
> their images in just 1hour and one step, while most time was waiting until
> the .t3ds where build and reimported in the new site again. 800 pages 2300
> CEs and a whole lot of images.
> 
> In another 2 sites one standard templating TYPO3 3.8.1 (2006 incl lz
> gallery) and the otherone old TV from 2004 we did in another 2 hours the
> same way. Before we upgraded all sites to propper TYPO3 4.5.2 and than did
> the same steps as above and it just worked out perfect and without no
> worries. Actually the only problem we really had was this lzgallery as it
> was blocking at the beginning and did not want to get deinstalled. Tomorrow
> the site with thousands of images and lots of albums will gets its new
> pictures and albums done with the new yag gallery :-) uff.
> 
> The WEC starter package was also here a great help and the converted sites
> worked instantly (only the design needs now to be customized to the needs of
> the customer. Some - really only a few links between those branches where
> lost and had to be redone (take notes about the error messages after you
> exported and imported the site than it is very easy to find the exact place
> of missing linkages. Thanks to Ron and WEC Team - without your help we would
> not have been able to manage this task in only half a day without any
> special database queries and replacing many things. It is really worth a
> trial to do this first and perhaps you are also lucky like we and everything
> just works out fine with the .t3d imports.
> 
> Important would be that you set your timeouts and the down and upload sizes
> in php/mysql to a high values which machtes those big .t3ds.
> 
> Andi
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Ron Hall <ronslists at busynoggin.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Thomas,
>> 
>>>>> I have an existing TV side. The DS has 2 fields: field_a and field_b.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I would like to migrate the pages to templavoila_framework.
>> 
>> This a task that you have to approach very carefully. It is essential that
>> you have not only a very good grasp on the Framework but also TemplaVoila
>> and TYPO3. If not then I would hesitate doing it. Even as I give you the
>> general approach it will need to be adapted for the particular situation and
>> having strong experience in TV is essential navigating your particular
>> situation.
>> 
>> It is very important that you you always have a current backup of you site
>> as you work. Plus you will probably will want to make a copy of the site and
>> do a test run first. But again always have a backup you can restore from.
>> 
>> My assumption is the site is already running on TemplaVoila and everything
>> is up to date (TYPO3 & TemplaVoila).
>> 
>> The first order of business is to switch TV from using database data
>> structures to using static data structures (file-based). The is a wizard for
>> that in the TV extension in the extension manager. Keep in mind this process
>> converts your existing DSs to static DSs and deletes the old DSs. This is
>> particularly where a backup is essential of the site and database.
>> 
>> You can then install the TV Framework and a skin.
>> 
>> Once you have done that then I would set up a development subdomain and
>> assign the TV Framework and skin to it. You can use it to develop the skin.
>> 
>> When the skin is ready, then you can assign the TV Framework and the skin
>> to your main domain. At that point all your content will be seem to
>> disappear, It will be found in the "unused content elements" tab in the page
>> module. Those elements will need to be relinked. If you have a large site
>> then you may want to do a search a replace in the DB to connect the content
>> elements to the proper content areas.
>> 
>> Again, only try this if you have the proper depth of experience and
>> backups.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ron Hall
>> 
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>> On Mar 16, 2011, at 5:00 AM, Thomas Gabler wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> Hi check out the column settings of those two fields
>>> 
>>> I don't rightly know what you mean.
>>> Do I have to update all database records using find/replace? How and
>> which tables?
>>> 
>>> I have an existing TV datastructure and a TV template object.
>>> Now I'd like to use a skin from TV framework.
>>> 
>>> thanks a lot
>>> kind regards
>>> Thomas
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I have an existing TV side. The DS has 2 fields: field_a and field_b.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I would like to migrate the pages to templavoila_framework.
>>>>> 
>>>>> How can I transform the fields
>>>>> field_a ->  field_content_block_1
>>>>> and
>>>>> field_b ->  field_content_block_2 ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Same for FCE.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am not an expert in TV. Is there a tutorial solving my problems?
>>>>> 
>>>>> kind regards
>>>>> Thomas
>>>>> 
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