Thanks Marius for this detailed answer. I’ve created a FAQ entry at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/FAQ/Do+I+need+to+run+the+Nested+Pages+Migrator with your information since I believe this is a common question we’ve had a few times already.
Thanks -Vincent > On 15 Dec 2016, at 10:01, Marius Dumitru Florea > <mariusdumitru.flo...@xwiki.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Julio Brum <brumpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In practice, the only problem of not migrating to Nested Pages is that a >> page may have a different breadcrumb path than the URL path. Migrating to >> Nested Pages, the URL path remains the same as the breadcrumb. It is? >> > > If you had this before the upgrade > > URL: /xwiki/bin/view/A/B > Breadcrumb: Home / X / Y / B > > then after the upgrade (without any migration) you have > > URL: /xwiki/bin/view/A/B > Breadcrumb: Home / A / B > > So you "loose" the parent-child hierarchy. Actually the information is not > lost, but the new breadcrumb doesn't use it. The new breadcrumb uses by > default the page location (what you have in the URL). So you have 3 options: > > (1) You don't care about the old parent-child hierarchy. In this case you > don't need to do anything. > (2) You want to keep using the parent-child hierarchy. In this case you > need to read about hierarchyMode configuration in > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/ContentOrganization/NestedPagesMigration/ > (3) You want to convert / migrate the parent-child hierarchy to the > Nested-Pages hierarchy. In this case you either use the Nested Pages > Migrator, which automates this for you, or you do it manually my moving > pages around (e.g. in the example above you would move page B from A to X/Y > so that its location becomes X/Y/B). > > Hope this helps, > Marius > > >> >> Best Regards, >> Julio >> >> 2016-12-14 18:46 GMT-02:00 Marius Dumitru Florea < >> mariusdumitru.flo...@xwiki.com>: >> >>> Hi Julio, >>> >>> You don't need to migrate individual wiki pages. You can continue to >> access >>> and edit them as before. The Nested Pages Migrator Application is useful >> if >>> you want to migrate from the old Parent-Child *hierarchy* to the new >>> Nested-Pages *hierarchy*. Otherwise, if you just want to add child pages >> to >>> an existing page that is not a space home page (in the old terminology) >>> then you can simply rename that page in order to make it "non-terminal". >>> See >>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/DocumentLifecycle# >>> HMove2FRename >>> . There's a note there: >>> >>> "And if you're an advanced user >>> <http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/PageEditing# >>> HSimpleandAdvancededitingmodes> >>> you'll be able to also control whether the new page will be a Terminal >> page >>> (i.e. a page that cannot have children, see also Terminology >>> <http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/ContentOrganization/# >>> HTerminology>) >>> or not" >>> >>> Hope this helps, >>> Marius >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Julio Brum <brumpa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> How can I manually migrate a page to Nested Pages without using the >>> Nested >>>> Pages Migrator Application (it does not work on my xwiki - I waited 15 >>>> minutes and nothing happened)? >>>> >>>> >>>> Best Regards, >>>> Julio >>>> >>> >>
