You might want to contact @Tarek about his experience with moving from dotnetnuke.  His earlier post. http://our.umbraco.org/forum/using/ui-questions/8896-My-first-project-Convert-a-DNN-application-to-Umbraco.

If your using any modules in your current dotnetnuke site, you'll need to find comparable packages in umbraco or write your own.  Those can't be imported, although you may be able to adapt them.

-Chris

Hi,

Since data is stored in a sql database for DNN you could use CMSImport to convert the data to Umbraco. I'm curious which DNN modules you use in the old site. Maybe I can add import support for certain DNN modules out of the box in a future release of CMSImport.

Cheers,

Richard 

Hi Richard,

To be honest, i dont know very much about DNN, and I dont know much about how much access i can get to the DNN database. This is just a thought i would like to take to my client and try convincing him to change CMS :-)

But thank you all for all the answers... I dont know if this is a too much of a job, when my client just wanted to change the theme on the website :-)

Cheers,

Peter

Hi Peter,

See i tried CMSImport but there is not great support in one DNN to Umbraco project.

You can start with Starter Kit rather and come up with pure umbraco architecture desing; and then create content using the old sit help.

Thanks,

[email protected]

Hi Jigar,

How can CMSImport help to make a migration from DNN to Umbraco be more smooth? Since modules using specific Datatables it would be a nightmare to support all DNN modules to import. But I really want to improve CMSIMport to work with the standard/most used modules. So my question is which modules should be supported out of the box.

Thanks,

Richard

Hi Richard,

Thanks for coming back to this post trail.

Uhh though to answer. I know this is quite hard stuff to automate the process of migrating from one CMS to another. Though very basic module's support can be handy.

Now how to find DNN's basic module is again a question because basic module can be found two ways one by functionalities and another by maximum usages (downloads).

My view following should be there.

1. http://dnntexthtml.codeplex.com/ (Basic HTML Editor base module)
2. http://dnnblog.codeplex.com/ (Basci blog module)

Let me know if i am mistaken any where.

Many thanks

Jigar

Hi Jigar,

Thanks. I was thinking about support for Announcements (http://dnnannouncements.codeplex.com/) and users as well.

You are right about the architectual differences between the two systems but it would still save a lot of time to import these items out of the box.

Thanks,

Richard

Yes, Announcements, I would prioritize that one.  Also Text/HTML is a very simple content type.  If you are feeling more adventurous, Blog, Forum, and Repository are very useful and commonly installed modules for DNN.

Hi,

Think I will start with the basic few. There is always a next version to add support for other modules ;-).

Thanks,

Richard

Hi Richard

How did this project work out for you? I have a 20+ sites that will need converting from DNN to Umbraco

Hi Johan,

It's still on the radar but didn't implement special data providers yet. What modules from DNN do you need to import, maybe I can create those easily?

Thanks,

Richard

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