Erich Beyrent: The Digital Mayflower - Data Pilgrimage With the Migrate Module
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Date/Time
Thursday, Nov 20, 2014 - 6:30pm
Location
Davenport Conference Room
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Presentation
In the year 1620, a collection of data left their proprietary database in search of a new, open ecosystem. Okay, so maybe that's not quite how the story goes, but it works for a modern reboot of the classic saga.
That moment of panic when someone assigns you the task of migrating a legacy site into Drupal. It's a daunting project, fraught with undocumented data, mixed character sets, bizarre content modules, and impossible deadlines. Fortunately, it's now easier than ever to migrate data from an existing source into Drupal, thanks to the Migrate module.
In this session, we'll cover:
- An overview of the Migrate module
- Common hooks for iterating and transforming your data
- Migration from databases, CSV files, and static HTML
- How to use Drush to control your migrations
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About The Speaker
Erich Beyrent is a software engineer employed by the Family Education Network at Pearson Education, specializing in PHP and Drupal development. Prior to joining the team at Pearson, he worked on the OpenScholar Drupal distribution at Harvard University. Erich is active in the Drupal community, having contributed modules and patches to the community. He presented at DrupalCon in Szeged Hungary, and co-presented at DrupalCon in Washington, DC.
About BioRAFT
The BioRAFT platform is an innovative solution for laboratory safety, compliance and training. Designed by scientific researchers to aid scientific research, BioRAFT streamlines and automates the training and compliance process while being easy for researchers to use, which reduces compliance and training overhead and increases researcher productivity.
Comments
Check Out Query UI for Migrations
Eric/Miche, you should check out the Query UI module for migrations. We just released a stable beta for it.
https://www.drupal.org/project/qui
The docs have a bit about how to go about connecting a migration to a QUI Report (query). See https://www.drupal.org/node/2307683#migrate You can create reports that query any database that's declared in your settings.php file. Reports are also exportable so they can be maintained in code. We'd love to have more folks using QUI for migrations so we can uncover use cases we might not have run into yet.