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title: "Upgrading from 2.4 to 3.0"
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# Upgrading from 2.4 to 3.0 {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0}

Version 3.0 replaces the profile editing view in place. The content element
keeps its type and its sets, but every Fluid file of the old form flow is gone,
and the editor writes through a JSON page type that the site has to deliver.
Work through the sections in order. Skip a step that does not apply to the
installation.

## Before you start {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-before-you-start}

Version 3.0 runs on TYPO3 13.4 from 13.4.35 on and on TYPO3 14.3 from 14.3.7
on, with PHP 8.2 or later.

**academic_persons_edit** 3.0 declares two new dependencies,
[`typo3/cms-rte-ckeditor`](https://packagist.org/packages/typo3/cms-rte-ckeditor) and [`typo3/html-sanitizer`](https://packagist.org/packages/typo3/html-sanitizer), see
[Important: New dependencies cms-rte-ckeditor and html-sanitizer](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:important-new-ckeditor-and-sanitizer-dependency@main). Neither adds a
package to an installation: **academic_persons** requires
**rte_ckeditor** already, and the TYPO3 core requires
[`typo3/html-sanitizer`](https://packagist.org/packages/typo3/html-sanitizer). The extension also needs these academic
packages. Upgrade them first or in the same deployment, in this order:

-   [`fgtclb/environment-state-manager`](https://packagist.org/packages/fgtclb/environment-state-manager) 2.x, in place of 1.x, which
    **academic_base** 3.0 and **academic_persons** 3.0
    require. Composer updates it on its own. A classic installation updates
    **environment_state_manager** to 2.x before it activates either of
    them.
-   [`fgtclb/academic-base`](https://packagist.org/packages/fgtclb/academic-base) 3.0, the same release as this extension.
-   [`fgtclb/academic-persons`](https://packagist.org/packages/fgtclb/academic-persons) 3.0, the same release as this
    extension. Its upgrade chapter has steps of its own, and its database
    update and its settings migration are due in the same deployment.

**academic_persons_sync** 3.0 requires this extension and follows it in
the same deployment, where installed.

These changes have to ship in the same deployment as the update:

-   A site package that copied the TypoScript of this extension adds the page
    type the editor writes through, or the editor cannot save, see
    [The page type of the editor](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-page-type@main).
-   Project code that extends or links to a removed class or action of the old
    form flow goes, see [The replaced view](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-replaced@main) and
    [Adapt your code](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-code@main).

The module paths on this page are those of TYPO3 13, where the upgrade runs.

## Update TYPO3 first {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-typo3}

Update TYPO3 to 13.4.35 or later while the site still runs 2.4, which supports
TYPO3 13.4. Version 3.0 no longer installs on TYPO3 12, and Composer and the
Extension Manager refuse it next to an older patch release of TYPO3 13.

Stay on TYPO3 13 until the upgrade is complete. The content element wizard
`academicPersonsEdit_pluginContent` of this extension reads the column
`tt_content.list_type`, which TYPO3 14 removes, so it only runs on
TYPO3 13. The same holds for the content element wizard of
**academic_persons**, which this extension requires, and for those of
**academic_jobs** and **academic_projects** when the
installation also has them. Move to TYPO3 14.3.7 or later once they have run.

See [Breaking: Removed TYPO3 v12 support](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:breaking-removed-typo3-v12-support@main) and
[Important: TYPO3 13.4.35 or 14.3.7 is required](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:important-minimum-typo3-versions@main).

## Update the package {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-package}

```bash
composer require -W \
    'fgtclb/academic-base':'~3.0.0' \
    'fgtclb/academic-persons':'~3.0.0' \
    'fgtclb/academic-persons-edit':'~3.0.0'
```

On a classic installation, update **environment_state_manager** to 2.x
from the TER in **Admin Tools > Extensions** first, then update
**academic_base**, **academic_persons** and
**academic_persons_edit** there, in this order. Keep
**rte_ckeditor** active, the rich text fields of the editor load
CKEditor 5 from it. Run the commands of this page with
`typo3/sysext/core/bin/typo3` instead of `vendor/bin/typo3`.

```bash
vendor/bin/typo3 cache:flush
```

## Update the database {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-database}

```bash
vendor/bin/typo3 extension:setup
```

Or apply the changes in **Admin Tools > Maintenance > Analyze
Database Structure**.

Version 3.0 of this extension changes no table. Run the update all the same,
it applies the changes of the index definitions TYPO3 13.4.35 and 14.3.7
bring, and **academic_persons** 3.0 changes its tables, which the
upgrade wizards of the next step require. Its upgrade chapter names what has
to be checked before.

## Run the upgrade wizards {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-wizards}

Run the wizards in this order, after the database update, and on TYPO3 13:

1.  `academicPersonsEdit_pluginContent`, **Migrate plugin list
    element from academic_persons_edit to normal content elements**, only if it
    is still offered.
1.  `academicPersonsEdit_repairLocalizedProfileImages`, **Repair
    the profile image relations of academic profiles**.

```bash
vendor/bin/typo3 upgrade:run academicPersonsEdit_pluginContent
vendor/bin/typo3 upgrade:run academicPersonsEdit_repairLocalizedProfileImages
```

A wizard that TYPO3 recorded as done is offered again once it is marked
undone. TYPO3 13 marks a wizard undone with
`vendor/bin/typo3 upgrade:mark:undone <identifier>`.
The repair wizard is repeatable and never recorded as done.

### The content element wizard {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-ctype}

`academicPersonsEdit_pluginContent` shipped with 2.x already and moves a
profile editing content element stored as `list` with a `list_type`
onto its own `CType`. An installation that ran it there has nothing more
to do. TYPO3 14 no longer has `tt_content.list_type`, so the wizard has to
run on TYPO3 13, before the core update. Replace own TypoScript, TSconfig or
SQL that matches on `list_type` with a condition on `CType`. See
[Breaking: Extbase plugins require CType on TYPO3 v14](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:breaking-plugins-require-ctype-on-typo3-v14@main).

### The profile image relations {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-profile-images}

**academic_persons** 3.0 makes the profile image translatable, and a
translation can carry an image of its own. The relations the image upload and
the translation synchronisation of 2.x wrote do not always fit that. The
wizard **Repair the profile image relations of academic profiles**,
`academicPersonsEdit_repairLocalizedProfileImages`, is new in 3.0. It reduces
duplicate references of a profile, corrects the relation counters, and sets
the `custom` localization state on a translation that carries an image of its
own, so that the next synchronisation keeps it. See
[Important: Repair wizard for profile image relations](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:important-multilingual-profile-editing-images@main).

The wizard writes through the DataHandler and deletes no file. It skips
workspace versions and acts in the live workspace, so publish a workspace with
person records and run the wizard again afterwards. Run it before editors use
the new editor of a multilingual site. Prefer the command line over the
upgrade module for it.

## Adapt the configuration {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-configuration}

### The upgrade check {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-upgrade-check}

The console command `academic:upgrade:check` of **academic_base**
reads the stored configuration of the installation and reports what no longer
reaches the academic extensions. Run it on the staging copy right after the
package update, and work through what it reports together with the next
steps:

```bash
vendor/bin/typo3 academic:upgrade:check
```

With the extension key and a site it also reports every template override of
the site whose file this extension no longer ships, which is every override of
the old form flow:

```bash
vendor/bin/typo3 academic:upgrade:check academic_persons_edit --site=<site identifier>
```

Each finding, and what to do about it, is described in the [upgrade check](https://docs.typo3.org/p/fgtclb/academic-base/main/en-us/UpgradeCheck/Index.html#upgrade-check)
of **academic_base**.

### The page type of the editor {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-page-type}

The editor writes through a `PAGE` object with
`typeNum = 1733735`, named
`academicPersonsProfileEditingAjax`. The site set
`fgtclb/academic-persons-edit-profile-editing`, the sets that depend on it and
the static templates of this extension deliver it. There was no such page type
in 2.4.

-   A site package that copied the TypoScript of this extension instead of
    including the set or a static template has no such object. Include the
    delivered TypoScript, or add the object to the copy. The editor reports a
    missing page type above itself and in the TYPO3 log, it cannot repair it.
-   A `PageType` route enhancer maps `typeNum` `1733735`.
-   A web application firewall or a reverse proxy lets the page type and the
    `X-Requested-With` header through.

See [The page type of the JSON endpoints](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:profile-editing-page-type@main) and
[Important: Profile editing is replaced in place](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:important-profile-editing-replaced-in-place@main).

### The header of the content element {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-header}

The editor renders no header of its content element, and nothing reads
`plugin.tx_academicpersonsedit.renderContentElementHeader` of 2.4
any more. A site that switched the constant on, because its content element
layout renders no header, loses the header and subheader of the content
element. Remove the constant, and render the header through a content element
layout of the site, as the entry shows. See
[Breaking: The profile editing plugin renders no content element header](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:breaking-profile-editing-renders-no-content-element-header@main).

The constant `plugin.tx_academicpersonsedit.view.layoutRootPath`
is removed as well, the editor renders without a Fluid layout.

### The profile image upload {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-profile-image-upload}

An empty value of
`plugin.tx_academicpersonsedit.settings.editForm.profileImage.validation.allowedMimeTypes`
or `...validation.maxFileSize` no longer switches the validation
off. It falls back to `image/jpeg,image/png,image/webp` and `2M`. A site
that emptied a setting to accept every image or every size lists the accepted
types and the size explicitly. See
[Breaking: Profile image upload validation always applies](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:breaking-profile-image-upload-validation-always-applies@main).

### The settings of the editor {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-settings}

The editor reads its fields from
`Configuration/AcademicPersons/Settings.yaml` of
**academic_persons**, which version 3.0 builds from sections. The
contract form renders the fields of `contracts.fields`, and the address,
email address and phone number forms those of
`contracts.contactSections.<section>.fields`, in the order of the file. A
field the file does not declare is neither rendered nor written. A site
package with its own settings file declares the contract fields and the
contact sections it wants, after the migration the upgrade chapter of
**academic_persons** describes. See
[Breaking: Contract fields and contacts are configured as a unit](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:breaking-contract-configuration-and-accessible-profile-editing@main) and
[Profile editor and validation](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:configuration-editor-settings@main).

### Extension configuration {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-extension-configuration}

`profile.autoCreateProfiles` and `profile.createProfileForUserGroups` are
removed from the extension configuration of this extension. They have had no
effect since 2.1, where **academic_persons** took them over. Run the
wizard `academicPersons_MigrateProfileAutoCreateExtensionsConfiguration` of
**academic_persons** if it is still offered, it copies the values over,
and drop the two options from the deployment configuration afterwards.

### Labels {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-labels}

The labels of the old form flow are removed, 149 units of
`locallang.xlf`, and the editor brings its own under the prefix
`profileEditing.*`. An override or a translation of a removed unit has no
effect any more. Compare the overrides with the shipped file.

The help texts and the section headings of the editor read their overrides
from `plugin.tx_academicpersonsedit._LOCAL_LANG`. See
[Important: Label overrides of the profile editor read the paths of the editor](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:important-editor-label-overrides-read-the-editor-paths@main) and
[Labels](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:configuration-labels@main).

## Adapt templates and assets {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-templates}

### The replaced view {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-replaced}

Every Fluid file of the form flow of 2.4 is removed: the layout
`Layouts/ProfileEdit.html`, the templates of the profile, the contract,
the email address, the phone number, the address and the profile information
below `Templates/`, and the partials below
`Partials/Profile/Buttons/`, `Partials/Profile/Forms/`,
`Partials/Profile/List/`, `Partials/Profile/Properties/` and
`Partials/Profile/Show/`. Only `Templates/Profile/List.html` stays,
rewritten. The new view is `Templates/Profile/Index.html` with its
partials below `Partials/Profile/`. See
[Breaking: Replaced the profile editing view](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:breaking-replaced-profile-editing-plugin@main).

-   An override of a removed file is no longer rendered. Delete it, and
    re-apply what the project still wants on top of the new files.
    [Overriding templates](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:templates-override@main) names the files that carry the hooks the script
    of the editor binds to.
-   A link to a removed controller or action answers with an error page. Link
    to the action `index` with the argument `profileUid`, or to the list
    of profiles.
-   The editor configuration
    `Resources/Public/JavaScript/frontend/ckeditor.js` of 2.4 is
    removed. The editor loads CKEditor 5 from
    **rte_ckeditor** itself.

The upgrade check with the extension key and a site reports every override of
a removed file, see [The upgrade check](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-upgrade-check@main).

### Classes and styles {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-classes}

The templates carry the speaking `ace-*` classes the academic extensions
share. Only the grid classes, the button classes and `visually-hidden` of
Bootstrap stay. The scripts show and hide markup through the attribute
`hidden`, not the class `d-none`. An override keeps the `data-pe-*`
attributes and the `ace-message` of a field. See
[Breaking: Profile editing templates carry speaking classes](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:breaking-persons-edit-speaking-frontend-classes@main) and the chapter
[Styling](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:styling@main).

The extension ships no stylesheet, as in 2.4. Only the development versions of
3.0 shipped one for the editor. Some parts of the new editor do not work
without rules of the site: the image cropper, the elements hidden with
`[hidden]` where a display utility of Bootstrap outranks the attribute,
and the `display` of the custom elements. Copy those rules from the
stylesheet of the development instances, see [An example](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:styling-example@main) and
[Breaking: The profile editing plugin ships no stylesheet](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:breaking-profile-editing-ships-no-stylesheet@main). On TYPO3 13.4.36, 14.3.8
and later the rich text fields need the interface stylesheet of CKEditor 5 as
well, which the site links from **EXT:rte_ckeditor**, see
[The rich text editor](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:styling-rich-text-editor@main).

### Icons {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-icons}

The editor renders the shared action and state icons of
**academic_base** with its `ab:icon` ViewHelper. The
`academic-persons-edit-*` identifiers are removed, five of them without a
successor, and the content element icon is
`tx-academicpersonsedit-plugin-profile-editing` now. A replacement of an
editor icon moves to the `Configuration/FrontendIcons.php` of the site
package, under the `tx-academicbase-*` identifier. The icons are inlined as
`<svg>`, so a selector such as `.t3js-icon img` no longer matches. See
[Breaking: Profile editing renders the shared icon set](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:breaking-persons-edit-profile-editing-icons-moved-to-the-frontend-icon-registry@main)
and [Icon identifiers](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:profile-editing-icons@main).

## Adapt your code {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-code}

-   The contract form has no **Publish** switch any more.
    `ContractFormData` loses `$publish` and `isPublish()`, and a
    save that still sends `publish` is refused with HTTP 422. Drop it from
    overrides, clients and constructor calls. See
    [Breaking: The contract form has no "Publish" switch](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:breaking-contract-publish-switch-removed@main).
-   The five controllers of the contracts, the profile information and the
    contacts are removed, and `ProfileController` keeps only the actions
    of the new editor. `AbstractActionController`,
    `UserSessionService`, `AbstractFormDataConverter` and the five
    validators of the contract, address, email, phone number and profile
    information forms are removed as well, see
    [The replaced view](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-replaced@main). A project that completes or
    refuses a write of the editor listens to
    `BeforeProfileEditingWriteEvent`, see
    [BeforeProfileEditingWriteEvent](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:developers-event-before-profile-editing-write-event@main).
-   `UnknownValidatorException` and `UnsuitableValidatorException`
    moved to the namespace `\FGTCLB\AcademicBase\Settings\Exception`. See
    [Important: Validator exceptions moved to EXT:academic_base](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:important-validator-exceptions-moved-to-academic-base@main).
-   The listener `SyncChangesToTranslations` takes its record
    synchronizer as `$recordSynchronizer` now. Code that creates it with
    the named argument `recordSyncronizer:` changes it, see the [breaking
    change entry of academic_persons](https://docs.typo3.org/p/fgtclb/academic-persons/main/en-us/Changelog/3.0/Breaking-SynchronizerContextNamespaceCorrected.html).

## Check the result {#upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-check}

-   The upgrade check reports no override of a removed file, and exits with
    `0`, without and with the extension key, see
    [The upgrade check](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:upgrade-from-2-4-to-3-0-upgrade-check@main).
-   The new content element wizard offers the content element as
    **Edit Person’s Profiles**, see
    [Important: Content elements have new titles and descriptions](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-persons-edit:important-content-element-titles-and-descriptions@main).
-   The editor loads without the alert that the profile cannot be saved, a
    field can be saved, and the browser console shows no failed request to the
    page type `1733735`.
-   The header of a profile editing content element appears once.
-   The image cropper can be dragged, and the regions the editor hides stay
    hidden.
-   A profile image uploads, and a translated profile shows an image in every
    language. An upload in one language does not change the image of another.
-   The rich text fields start the editor, and its toolbar shows small icons
    in one row.