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PoolParty Data Migration From Version 8 or Higher to Version 9.0.1 or Higher

PoolParty migration is the process of moving PoolParty data from one PoolParty version to another after a PoolParty upgrade. In this case, we are discussing migrating from version PoolParty 8.x to version 9.0.1 or higher. The migration is a two-step process.

First, PoolParty migrates the server data. We don't migrate any of the existing users for now. Instead, we create a specific migration user called poolpartymigrate. After the server migration you can delete this user.

Secondly, the first time a user signs in, we migrate them on-the-fly. Only if a user signs in, we can migrate such user. This means that a user, who never signed in after the PoolParty server migration, will not be migrated.

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Migrate PoolParty Server and Project Data

PoolParty migrates the PoolParty server data including:

  • The PoolParty Public group and any other server specific group. For more information, refer to User Groups in PoolParty.

  • The PoolParty roles. For more information, refer to User Roles in PoolParty.User Roles in PoolParty

    Note

    If the None user role has not been migrated yet, it will be created in the PoolParty User Management.

If you selected at least one project, the project specific data that we migrate is:

Warning

Every PoolParty project has to be migrated.

Refer to Migrate Data From PoolParty 8 or Higher to 9.0 or Higher for the actual the steps how to migrate.

Migrating Users On-the-Fly

When a user signs in for the first time, PoolParty migrates the following data that are part of the User Profile:

  • User data (username, full name - first and last name, email address)

  • Authorization details (role, group)

  • User interface language

  • Auto-complete language

  • Display language, i.e. language setting for a whole PoolParty project. For example, if it is set to English and German, the user is going to see those languages automatically when they open the project.

  • Display settings such as SKOS View and time zone

  • User IRI

  • Encrypted user's password

Note

Users will only be migrated when they log in for the first time after an upgrade. A user does not exist in PoolParty until such user logs in and runs the migration process. This means that when using the PoolParty user administration view it may appear to you as if users "have disappeared" from the list of all users. This is however only a temporary effect since a user will only show up on this list after they have completed the migration. This is also the reason for the list of all users to gradually expand reflecting the completed migration of every single user.