Migrating to Umbraco 10

Questions
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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to migrate an old Umbraco 7 site to Umbraco 10, and I’m at a bit of a loss when it comes to the U7 Grid Data Type.

There’s some discussion in this forum saying that Nested Content is the way forward, but the NC docs say that it’s obsolete and that Block List should be used instead. This puts me at a bit of an impasse:

  • I can’t change the Umbraco 7 site to use Block List, because it requires Umbraco 8.7 or later
  • I can’t bring the current content up in Umbraco 10, because u7dtg doesn’t work in 10.

What’s the “best” migration process in this situation?

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://our.umbraco.com/forum/111883-migrating-to-umbraco-10
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Hi everyone,

Planning a similar upgrade for an Umbraco 7 site and have a follow up question to the post above: Can the Block List data type provide the fuctionality of the U7 Grid Data Type package?
We’ve used the Content grid Property editor in this package to create a number of very useful customized Data Types (eg a repeating grid of a mix of Property editors) and don’t yet see similar capability in the current (V13) documentation.

Any insight would be helpful and kindly appreciated.
Thank you, Steve /AFT

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You might want to look at uSyncMigrations.. though you’ll have to write you own migrator for the U7 grid data type which might be quite onerous.

Looking at

The image shows the configuration interface for a Content Grid property editor, where the user can define columns such as Name, Description, Image, and "Is a trained dog?", along with their respective data types and aliases. (Captioned by AI)
The image shows the configuration interface for a Content Grid property editor, where the user can define columns such as Name, Description, Image, and "Is a trained dog?", along with their respective data types and aliases. (Captioned by AI)1173×675 69 KB

That does seem to align with blockList..

So maybe uSyncMigrations/uSync.Migrations.Migrators/Core/NestedContentMigrator.cs at main · Jumoo/uSyncMigrations would be your starting point, for your custom migrator

Or maybe the community contributed uSyncMigrations/uSync.Migrations.Migrators/Community/StackedContent/StackedContentToBlockListMigrator.cs at main · Jumoo/uSyncMigrations

PS V13 does have block grid Block Grid | Umbraco CMS
In case that is of interest for more editor control over row/column created templates..

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Actually I wonder if contentGrid actually is a table?

so maybe Limbo Tables | Umbraco Marketplace ??