Migrate from tt_news

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

Requirements

It is not required to have tt_news installed or available in the installation. All it needs are the database table and the images and files used in the records.

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.

Migration of the plugins

The plugins of tt_news can be migrated to plugins of EXT:news as well. This is done by using the CLI:

./typo3/cli_dispatch.phpsh extbase ttnewspluginmigrate:run
./typo3/cli_dispatch.phpsh extbase ttnewspluginmigrate:removeOldPlugins

Read more about the migration and its limitation in the documentation of news_ttnewsimport at https://github.com/fsaris/news_ttnewsimport.

Not migrated

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