Ngen and EE2, need help!
Development and Programming
I’ve just upgraded a site to EE2 and ngen is giving field type errors. Can anyone help me manually correct this?
I’ve had to restore the old version…will work on getting EE2 up later. Does anyone know how to get the nGen field type ready to upgrade? Ngenworks is closed up for the holidays.
Ngens file fieldtype is for EE1.x only - EE2 has it’s own file field type. I’m pretty sure you can just update your “file” custom fields to the native fieldtype in EE2 and that’s keep everything intact.
I recently upgraded and had to run some sql queries to get nGen fields compatible with EE2.
Bit of a painful process, but worked ok in the end. See this thread for some help.
Should also mention that for a lot of legacy field types I simply changed them to ‘text’ fields before the upgrade and then changed them to EE2 versions/alternatives afterwards.
It was a 3 site MSM build with thousands of entries which used gypsy also, I ended up having to merge all the fields via sql, into 1 big field group for each site and then use publish layouts to recreate the functionality.
Biggest problem I had was with the scaling problems of the EE2 filemanager. If your site has thousands of files in the directories, good luck making it usable for your client.