We have three clients that uses DocTypeGridEditor (https://github.com/skttl/umbraco-doc-type-grid-editor) on their sites (upgraded from 8 to 11) and I'm wondering if someone has migrated that to block list, or block grid?
I've sen that uSync has a migration package for grid to block grid but I haven't had the time to try it out with DocTypeGridEditor-grids. Has anyone tried that with good results?
Yes, have migrated several sites now from V7 to V10 and used uSync Migrations to migrate Old Grid with DTGE into the new Grid...
it works well... like magic really, but, the results aren't necessarily the same as if you designed the site from scratch with the new grid.
particularly the 'naming of things', but the main thing is it has gotten the sites migrated and there is a platform from which to continue to improve, and work with css grid to get the best out of new grid.
Awesome! Thank you for you reply. I'll test that out once I get the chance and good to know that it's not a cumbersome journey to migrate DTGE to the new grid.
Would be great to hear how you got on, i'm just pondering how we move DTGE content to the new Block Grid Editor and it would be amazing if uSync, or similar could do the job
It wasn't 100% straight forward but in the end I could migrate a multi-language site after ca two work days.
The largest problem I encountered was that usync sometimes forgot the culture on the migrated grid-property so I had to manually add those in the migration files. Without the culture the new block grid items wouldn't be imported for a certain page in a specific language.
The site I migrated wasn't that large, so it didn't take many hours to go through all files and double check that everything was correct but I can image that it's quite a hussle if you have a site that has hundreds of pages.
Other than that it was surprisingly smooth to convert old grid to new grid block.
That's good news then. I'm working initially on a site with lots of pages, but a single language setup so hopefully being able to side-step that it might not be as bad as I thought.
Possible to migrate Our.Umbraco.DocTypeGridEditor to block grid?
Hi
We have three clients that uses DocTypeGridEditor (https://github.com/skttl/umbraco-doc-type-grid-editor) on their sites (upgraded from 8 to 11) and I'm wondering if someone has migrated that to block list, or block grid?
I've sen that uSync has a migration package for grid to block grid but I haven't had the time to try it out with DocTypeGridEditor-grids. Has anyone tried that with good results?
Hi Alexander
Yes, have migrated several sites now from V7 to V10 and used uSync Migrations to migrate Old Grid with DTGE into the new Grid...
it works well... like magic really, but, the results aren't necessarily the same as if you designed the site from scratch with the new grid.
particularly the 'naming of things', but the main thing is it has gotten the sites migrated and there is a platform from which to continue to improve, and work with css grid to get the best out of new grid.
Also the Rick Butterfields' community BlockPreview package https://github.com/rickbutterfield/Umbraco.Community.BlockPreview makes the results more DTGE like!
regards
Marc
Hi Marc
Awesome! Thank you for you reply. I'll test that out once I get the chance and good to know that it's not a cumbersome journey to migrate DTGE to the new grid.
Hi Alexander,
Would be great to hear how you got on, i'm just pondering how we move DTGE content to the new Block Grid Editor and it would be amazing if uSync, or similar could do the job
Hi Graham
It wasn't 100% straight forward but in the end I could migrate a multi-language site after ca two work days.
The largest problem I encountered was that usync sometimes forgot the culture on the migrated grid-property so I had to manually add those in the migration files. Without the culture the new block grid items wouldn't be imported for a certain page in a specific language.
The site I migrated wasn't that large, so it didn't take many hours to go through all files and double check that everything was correct but I can image that it's quite a hussle if you have a site that has hundreds of pages.
Other than that it was surprisingly smooth to convert old grid to new grid block.
Hi Alexander,
That's good news then. I'm working initially on a site with lots of pages, but a single language setup so hopefully being able to side-step that it might not be as bad as I thought.
I really appreciate the insight - many thanks!
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