![]() Their expertise and flexibility were applied to formatting a spreadsheet export of their data specifically configured for an import into Drupal. Luckily for me, the NEON team are old hands when it comes to spreadsheet manipulation. The bulk of the data was destined for a content type with more than 75 unique fields, and the sheer volume and complexity of the data was steering me away from point-and-click interfaces. When GUIs overwhelm: CSV or Spreadsheet content migrationsĮarlier this year I began working with the National Science Foundation’s National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to migrate robust ecological data collected from more than eighty terrestrial and aquatic field sites across the United States into a Drupal 8 website. ![]() GUI powered migrations are perfect for minimally to moderately complex content, but can have a hard time crossing the finish line alone for complicated datasets. These modules lay the foundation for a wide variety of migration methods including several flavors of CSV importers like the point-and-click Entity Importer module for Drupal 8 developed by my colleague Travis Tomka. You can download the accompanying Aten CSV Migrate example module here, and skip straight to the instructions if you'd like.ĭrupal 8 offers a handful of powerful and extensible migration modules in core. In this post we’ll get you from zero (fresh Drupal 8 install) to a basic CSV data migration - including entity references and multiple field values - in about 15 or 20 minutes. I’ve written about data migration in Drupal 8 a couple of times, but new projects keep highlighting the diversity of data sources and content configurations, reminding me over and over again that data migration doesn’t really have a one-size-fits-all solution. Content migration into a Drupal website using spreadsheet or CSV data can be surprisingly effective - especially (counterintuitively?) with large and complex datasets.
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