Hello,

I've upgraded my large-ish Drupal site from 4.7 to 5.1 recently, and make heavy use of Organic Groups.

Now that og_basic is no longer supported, I understand that I should use cck to create a custom node type.

My question is: How do I migrate over all the content from my old groups to the new node type?

For example:

I have a group "Africa", with 840 members and many blog posts / comments. Even though the og_basic node is not there anymore, the group is still working properly, though some features (such as the "my groups") block are not working.

I'd love to create a new node type in CCK to replace the defunt og_basic "Africa" group, but how can I do so while keeping all the users, posts and metadata associated with the group?

Thanks!

s.

Comments

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman CreditAttribution: moshe weitzman commented
Status: Active » Fixed

after backing up your DB, try a straight UPDATE node SET type= WHERE type = 'og_basic';

might just work since og_basic only used title and body fields.

Steven Mansour’s picture

Steven Mansour CreditAttribution: Steven Mansour commented
Status: Fixed » Active

Hmm... nope, that doesn't seem to have changed anything.

However, before deleting a group I'm prompted to "Move all postings within this group to another group". That *could* solve the problem except for one little detail: Will it also move *user memberships* into the new group? (I didn't try because I don't want to lose my group memberships).

If so, I could easily just create new CCK groups to replace all the OG_basic ones and delete the old ones, moving the content *and users* to the new ones.