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Drupal-to-Drupal Migration Planning: Content Inventory for Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11

If you want to be able to say you're done with your Drupal-to-Drupal migration, first you have to be able to define "done". And part of that is doing a content analysis and inventory. Performing a content analysis and inventory will help you ensure that you don't miss any fields or important records. It also gives you an opportunity to spend some time thinking about the overall information architecture of your site. You're already going to be doing a lot of work to migrate your content, so deciding to shuffle things a bit now might not add any significant extra time. Additionally, the latest Drupal (as of Drupal 10) is a different platform than either Drupal 6 or 7, and as such, there are some new best practices and new ways of doing things that might not have been available before.

In this tutorial we'll:

  • Provide a set of questions you can ask yourself about the content of your current site to kick-start your analysis.
  • Give an example of how we create a content type inventory in a spreadsheet and use that to help define "done" for our projects.

By the end of this tutorial you should be able to get started analyzing the content and content types of your existing site in order to start planning for your Drupal-to-Drupal migration.