By Samlet9908 on

I recently migrated a large vBulletin site to Drupal 7 using a combination of the vBulletin to Drupal module and the Migrate module. I realized afterwards that the techniques installed user information into the old soon to be completely deprecated core User Profile instead of User Entity Fields.

Can someone please clarify whether the Drupal 8 upgrade will provide some kind of migration for User Profiles? I do not want to get stuck in Drupal 7 because of this issue.

I cannot find a definitive answer here https://drupal.org/node/1261576 and in several other places. I am also confused by whether they’re considering Profile2 in D8 core, and whether core user profiles will even be on developers’ radars.

If it’s going to be something done automatically, I’d rather not have to go through a tedious D7 to D7 migration of core user profiles to user entity fields, though I’ve ready through migrate_d2d documentation and other options briefly.

thanks to anyone interested enough to answer.

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WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

I haven't seen anything about d6/d7 profile -> D8 core user fields update, but with the migrate module in core, it should be doable even if core doesn't provide an automated migration.

As for profile in core, it was given an exception to feature freeze, but hasn't seen much activity lately: #1668292: Move simplified Profile module into core. Maybe ask for an update in that issue.

Samlet9908’s picture

Samlet9908 commented

Well if Migrate is installed in Core, then perhaps I can wait until then to see if something is better mapped out. My issue is that I don't really need to 'migrate' from one site to another, but 'convert' one kind of information to another. I suppose that would be more appropriate to do during a real migration. I just hope someone is enterprising enough to consider facilitating profile migration for the first release.