Here are the migration details and migration notes for announcements.
Migration Overview
- Announcements in CEE are migrated as News in CTF 8.1.
- Image URLs, publishing and event dates in CEE announcements are migrated as
news content in CTF 8.1.
- If the Project Home page is configured via
remote publishing (using index.html), the News component would not
appear in the Home Page. However, the news component would appear in My
Workspace in CTF 8.1.
- CEE project owner’s message is migrated to the CTF 8.1 news component as
project news.
This table shows how fields in CEE map to fields in CTF 8.1:
| CEE |
CTF 8.1 |
| Announcements |
News |
| Headline |
Title – character limit is 250 |
| Body |
Body |
| Announcements Modified Date |
News Creation Date |
| Image URLs, Event Dates |
News - Body |
Notes
- In CEE, Announcements is available as an independent tool, whereas, in
CTF 8.1, News is available as a project page component.
- For public projects in CTF 8.1, news is displayed in Login page even after
logout.
- Advanced options for announcements like publishing and event dates are not
migrated to CTF 8.1. as CTF 8.1 doesn't support these features.
- News post headlines are migrated only up to the first 250 characters.
- Deleted announcements are not migrated from CEE to CTF 8.1.