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In my quest to find a solution that will let me migrate my Galleries from EE 1 to EE 2 I have come up with a potential approach. This involves exporting the gallery data via a template set to format the data in such a manner that Solspace’s Importer can handle it.

Now, I don’t have an EE 2 installation to test with, unfortunately, so this makes some things hard to work out. Such as just how I would even build something that resembles my old Galleries in EE 2 using a Channel.

Lets say I create a channel that serves as a dedicated gallery, with one post per image.

1) What would the workflow be like if a) the image already exists on the server or b) the image needs to be uploaded?

2) How much control do I have over where the image can be stored? To be able to migrate, I need to be able to preserve my current image locations. My current setup involves something along these lines:

http://www.domain.com/graphics/gallery/category1, www.domain.com/graphics/gallery/category2, etc

The way I hope to do this is to export all the data, upgrade the site to EE 2 and then setup new Channels corresponding to the old Galleries. I would then use Importer to add the data back into those Channels.

My main concern is how each of those new Channel entries will be associated with the images already on the server. The image_url will be exported along with the other data, but not knowing the workflow I am not sure how it can be used in the Channel.

After some poking around, I found this tutorial for creating a gallery in EE 2: http://www.packtpub.com/article/creating-photo-gallery-expressionengine-2

Now, this just leaves me with two questions, really:

Can I create an Upload Destination for each Channel that I create to use as a Gallery? In fact, can I even create an Upload Destination per category in those Channels, to be able to perfectly mimic how Gallery categories and folders work in EE 1?

And if I have a number of Upload Destinations and I upload files into them and go to the Channel used as a gallery to add in an image to a post, do I then get presented with all possible Upload Destinations or is there a way to link a specific Channel to a specific set of Upload Destinations?

Hello Linda,

Have you ever had a look at DevDemon’s Channel Images? Great plugin for batch processing and organising channel entry related images.

I have, but since my current EE 1 galleries aren’t per-entry image galleries, I am unable to move to that approach. What I need is a solution that allows me to transfer my EE 1 galleries to EE 2 and preserve the exact image urls I am currently using. I have much too much data to re-enter the images and create redirects for all the URLs. 😊

Ahh. Worth a shot 😊

Absolutely, I appreciate the input. 😊