Below you will find the process worked out in greater detail:
- Meet customer (online or onsite)
- Obtain info from customer about data, and data structure.
- Investigate taxonomy, and if clean up required
- Obtain information for remote import and migration
- Define tridion schemas, or obtain existing schemas
- Map data structure to schemas, and document mappings
- Map taxonomies, and folder structures
- Define Blueprint relationships
- Export content and pages from existing data stores
- Convert content to XML
- Export dependencies (e.g. References to binaries like PDF's)
- Import content into Tridion
- Create pages to use content (Optional)
- Run additional scripts to clean up content
- Identify and report on failed import items
- Discuss and perform clean up with customer
- Test the deployment of content on a clean Tridion installation
- Test the deployment on a replica of customerTridion installation
- Import final content, taxonomy and structures into customer Tridion instance (onsite or remote)
- Hand over results
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