VPP Migration from 7 to 7.5

Joshua Folkerts

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Good day,

I have a question in regards to typed models in which we used to in episerver 7 use the Url as the type returned and now we need to use the ContentReference. During the migration, all the conversions happen and what not and stored old urls in a table. SO if i were to switch my property to contentreference from Url, I cannot forsee this being handled appropiately for content being referenced as a Url. IS there a way around this or how have others done this. Example of setup

EPiServer 7
public virtual Url NewsImage{get;set;}

EPiServer 7.5
public virtual ContentReference NewsImage {get;set;}

all works fine if i were to to create anew project and start out with newsImage as a contentlink but this site has been upgraded to 7.5 from 7. how to I new make NEwsImage a contentreference when all other references in 7 were Url. Will this not break?

I would be interested in entertaining your thoughts or ideas.

#84714

Apr 04, 2014 20:43

Tobias Nilsson

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Hey Joshua,

You can still use Url if you want to, you don't need to switch to ContentReference. However, if you are developing a new content type it is adviced to use ContentReference for images.

#84715

Apr 04, 2014 21:40

Joshua Folkerts

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But in the future, If you ever choose to not allow this, Then we are stuck with the url and all items are obsolete now right?

#84717

Apr 04, 2014 22:30

Joshua Folkerts

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Would a midgration task take care of this more me?

#84718

Apr 04, 2014 22:31

Tobias Nilsson

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The migration task should convert URLs that are softlinks. So if your link is in the softlinks table it should be taken care of.

#84721

Apr 04, 2014 22:55

Eric

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Did you ever try this? I have the same problem and as far as I can tell I am stuck with Url. Trying to change the type of property will remove all links to images sadly. The migration did not make ContentReferences of the images that looked like this:

      [Editable(true)]
        [Display(
            Name = "Image",
            Description = "Choose an image to show",
            GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content,
            Order = 10)]
        [UIHint(UIHint.Image)]
        public virtual Url Image { get; set; }

#118419

Mar 05, 2015 21:21