![]() Keep in mind that the XML elements will get their names from the labels assigned to the fields, so I recommend using lowercase, simple names so it’s easier to configure the feed importer later I chose some basic options but these are personal:Īdd the fields you need to export. So this is what we need to do: Source D7 siteĬreate a publicly accessible page view that exposes the data in XML format using this module’s view mode:Ĭonfigure the XML format in a way that’s easy to parse by the consuming feed importer. I decided I would go for XML since it’s pretty resilient to inline some encoded HTML (JSON would also do, but I haven’t tried it yet). What is the solution? Here it goes! Solution The rest of parsers are not useful for my custom content. So in principle CSV should work, but after analyzing the content I realized CSV would cause trouble since my content contained tabs, semi-colons, quotes, line-breaks, and all sorts of characters that would be problematic for such simple and error-prone format. In order to have 2) once we have 1) the feed importer should be able to process a custom XML/JSON/CSV dataset, and by default the Feeds module in D8 only allows for the following parsers: In order to have 1) we need to be able to expose the data in a machine-readable format, but Drupal 7 only offers RSS out of the box, and for most content types this is simply not enough (no possibility to configure fields or XML structure, RSS is a closed format) So I thought about this: General ApproachĬreate some view on the D7 site that will expose the content in a machine-readable format (XML, CSV, JSON…)Ĭreate a feed importer on the D8 site that will consume the newly created endpoint and put this data into nodesĮasy, right…? Well, not in Drupal’s world I thought to myself: “even if the creation of the structures has to be manual, there must be a way to export the content in an automated way”. If you have less than 10 redirects, it is easier to do them one by one than as a batch.Recently I faced the situation where I had built the structures already existing on a D7 site into a new D8 site, and I wanted to try them out with some content. NOTE : The batch process should be used only for when you have lots of redirects to create. If you create a spreadsheet that has the URL of the old page and the new "node" number of the page it should go to, you can send the file to us and we can run a batch import. We can also create redirects as a batch process using Excel spreadsheets. Redirects can also be created from the Configuration admin page, located in the Drupal 8/9+ versions area of the "Manage" shortcuts:įrom there, you can click on the URL Redirect link and fill out the from URL and the to URLs: Batch Redirects See the example below which shows the original page URL "/Old-Page" that will create a redirect to the updated page which has the URL of "node/32": The "From" field should be everything after the. NOTE: Make sure you do not copy over a / to the beginning of the "From" field or it will break the URL redirect. On the next page you can then paste in the URL of the original page into the "From" field and click the "Save" button at the bottom to activate the URL redirect. When editing your page, at the bottom is a "URL Redirects" tab:Ĭlick the tab and then click on the "Add URL redirect to this node" link on the right: This can be done by typing in the the desired URL into your browser address bar to make sure it takes you to a "page not found" and not to another page on the site.Īdding a redirect to a page can be done while you are editing that page. ![]() Note: When adding a URL redirect, please make sure that the URL you want to use is not already being used. You may also need to create a URL redirect so that the page URL is easier to remember for users or if you need a shorter URL for a printed flyer. Occasionally you may need to add a redirect to a page instead of changing the URL alias, such as when migrating content from one page to a new page, or when you have redesigned your site and you want to make sure that an old page on your original site will go to the correct page on your new site. DO NOT put spaces between words-use one word (like: title) or dashes (your-page-title) instead of spaces (your page title).DO NOT use acronyms-if you need a shorter URL, acronyms work better for redirects going to your page.DO NOT use special characters (&, !, %)-use only letters, numbers, and dashes. ![]() ⇒ NOTE: Drupal 8/9+ versions DO need the slash at the beginning of the URL alias DO NOT add a slash (/) at the beginning or end.Type in the new URL in the URL alias box.Uncheck the "Generate automatic URL alias" box.To make your own custom URL or change the default URL:.
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