[opencms-dev] Categories: How to handle incompatibilities between older and newer versions

[Paul-Inge Flakstad]

Hi all,

This script converts category elements in XMLContents and property mappings from old to new category "system":
https://github.com/paulflakstad/NPI-website/blob/master/web/sites/np/scripts/script-category-upgrade-processor.jsp

If you're currently working with the old xmlcontent editor and a "_categories" folder, and want/need to move to the newer approach with ".categories" folder and the new Acacia editor, I hope you'll find this useful.

Although I wrote the script for my own use case (a quite normal one, I think), modifying it to fit other use cases hopefully shouldn't be too difficult.

Have a nice weekend :)

Cheers,
Paul

From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Paul-Inge Flakstad
Sent: 10. desember 2015 13:10
To: The OpenCms mailing list
Subject: [opencms-dev] Categories: How to handle incompatibilities between older and newer versions

Hi guys and gals,

At some point, I will need to migrate to a newer version of OpenCms thousands of pages that use categories (editor widget + propertyList mapping).

All existing category tags will initially be broken, due to incompatibilities between older and newer versions; Newer versions names category folders ".categories" (changed from "_categories"), and comma-separates multiple categories in propertyList mappings (changed from pipe-separation).

Will I have to adapt everything to the newer version *manually* (i.e. by script), or is there a more elegant solution?

Cheers,
Paul

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