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

Requirements
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* Installed extension news
* Installed extension news_ttnewsimport

Migration
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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.

#. Activate the checkbox "Show importer", save and reload the backend. Now you should see the backend module "News Import".

#. Switch to the backend module.

#. Select "Import tt_news category records" from the select box and start the import of categories.

#. Select "Import tt_news news records" from the select box and start the import of news records.

Not migrated
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The following things are not migrated:

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