Migrations Resources and IMP Group Status

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Posted by awasson on November 3, 2017 at 4:51pm

A few questions...

1) I've been tinkering with D8 migrations off and on for a few years now and I've got a few recipes to assist me in custom migrations but are there any resources available to help with areas that aren't currently supported in the Migration API?

Note: Primarily I'm stumped on migrating D7 paragraph bundles into D8 paragraph bundles.

2) Where would be the best place to document my how-to's and recipes for mapping fields in custom migrations. It seems to me that every migration I've run in the past couple of years is custom but there are common patterns and processes I follow. It might be helpful to have a recipe book somewhere; sort of a Migrations Jump-start manual.

3) What's the status of the IMP Group. Is it defunct now that D8 and Migrations are somewhat stable and nearly feature complete?

Cheers,
Andrew

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I've got a couple posts on

Posted by heddn on November 6, 2017 at 2:59pm
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I've got a couple posts on paragraph migrations on my blog post over in https://www.mtech-llc.com/blog/charlotte-leon/migration-csv-data-paragraphs.

Thanks heddn, I'll give those

Posted by awasson on November 6, 2017 at 5:19pm
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Thanks heddn,

I'll give those a read. I really wish I could spend more time just working on Migrations because the way it works and the amount of control you can have over the process (when you figure out a few patterns sorted out) is awesome.

Simple fields come right across, the iterator plugin is great. I've got file/image sorted out, I've got date/time sorted out, taxonomies just seem to work although, I'm mapping them exactly tid -> tid so there isn't a lot of ambiguity like there is with things like node entity references where the nid is a moving target. I'm using migrate lookups for mapping entity references on nodes and that just works perfectly. I'm also particularly impressed at how well the D7 Address Field data migrates seamlessly into the new D8 Address module's fields. I though that would be a real tough one but 3 lines of YML and it just works.

Thanks for the link. I'll get into that now.

Cheers,
Andrew