Migration from tt_news to news

This tutorial will help you to migrate records from tt_news to news.

Requirements

  • Installed extension news
  • Installed extension news_ttnewsimport

Migration

To be able to migrate records, you need to activate the import module. This needs to be done in the configuration of EXT:news inside the extension manager.

  1. Activate the checkbox “Show importer”, save and reload the backend. Now you should see the backend module “News Import”.
  2. Switch to the backend module.
  3. Select “Import tt_news category records” from the select box and start the import of categories.
  4. Select “Import tt_news news records” from the select box and start the import of news records.

Not migrated

The following things are not migrated:

  • Plugins
  • TypoScript configuration
  • Fields of records which are added by 3rd party extensions