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Drupal 7 to 8 Content Migrations

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Track: 
Site Building
Experience Level: 
Intermediate
Session Length: 
60 minutes

Attendees will learn to move content from Drupal 7 to 8. A brief discussions of different approaches will be presented and general tips will be provided. Source, process, and destination plugins will be explained to learn how each affect the migration. By the end of the session, you will have a better understanding on how the Migrate ecosystem works and the thought process required to plan and perform migrations.

To get the most out of this session, attendees should have a general sense of how migrations work in Drupal 8. You can learn about that by watching this session recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBP2vQIwx-o

Learning Objectives & Outcomes: 

* Explore what is possible with an automated Drupal to Drupal migrations.
* Write custom migrations.
* Get content into different types of fields: taxonomy, date, image, file and address, and paragraphs.