Here are the migration details and migration notes for discussions.
Migration Overview
- All the active discussion forums, topics, posts, user subscribers and
attachments are migrated to CTF 8.1.
- Attachment formats are retained.
- All the discussion user subscribers in CEE are added to the
Monitoring Users list in CTF 8.1.
- Un-moderated and moderated discussions are migrated appropriately. However,
the trusted discussions are migrated as moderated discussions and trusted
subscribers as trusted users.
- Approved and waiting-for-approval topics/posts are migrated as is.
- Only those users who had the "Discussions - Discussion Use Private"
permission in CEE can view the migrated private discussions in CTF 8.1.
This table shows how fields in CEE map to fields in CTF 8.1:
| CEE |
CTF 8.1 |
| Title |
Forum Name |
| Email address |
Email Address |
| Description |
Description |
| Restrictions |
Enable Moderation/Type |
| Discussion User Subscribers |
Monitoring Users |
| Un-moderated/Moderated Discussions |
Un-moderated/Moderated Discussions |
| Trusted discussions/trusted subscribers |
Moderated discussions/trusted users |
| Discussion Description |
Forum Description |
| Prefix |
Subject Prefix |
| Email Posting |
Enable Mailing List |
| Email Address |
Email Address |
| Footer |
Footer Text |
While posting attachments via the user interface in CTF 8.1, attachments can only be
posted one at a time. However, while posting using email, you can post multiple
attachments.
This table lists the message posting mapping details:
| CEE |
CTF 8.1 |
| Subject |
Subject |
| Body |
Message |
| Attachments |
Attachments |
| Other Recipients |
Nil |
Notes
- The discussion mailing address format in CEE is
forumalias@project.domain whereas in CTF 8.1 it is
forumalias-project@domain.
Note: Post-migration,
the response emails to the existing CEE mailing address will be
re-directed to the new CTF 8.1 mailing address and captured into appropriate
mailing lists. However, it’s recommended to use the new CTF 8.1 mailing
address for any new posts. The future releases of CTF 8.1 may not continue
supporting the old mailing address compatibility.
Tip: A CEE forum list name can start with a number or "_" and
can also have "." and "-" characters, whereas, CTF 8.1 imposes certain
naming conventions. So, if the toAddressUsername (list name) in CEE
contains "." or "-", it is replaced with "_" in CTF 8.1. If it starts with
"_" in CEE, the underscore is removed in CTF 8.1. If it starts with a
number, post-migration, the number is replaced with the number in word,
suffixed by an underscore. For example, "1team" mailing list address
becomes "one_team" post-migration.
- The posts made by guest users in CEE are migrated with their actual mail-ids
being prefixed in their messages.
- The Default Discussions feature is not available in
CTF 8.1. The different default discussions (Issues/Commits) serve as archives
for any change to issues/version control commits. These are migrated to CTF 8.1
but post-migration, these forums do not continue as archives.
- Any form (approved/un-approved) of soft-deleted posts/topics/forums is not
migrated to CTF 8.1 as CTF 8.1 does not have soft deletion feature.
- The CJK file names are not preserved.
- Subject Prefix and Footer text fields available in CEE's create page are
mapped in CTF 8.1's edit page.
- Email messages can not be blocked based on attachments in CTF 8.1.
- In CEE, "Content in email" has two options: Send full text of posted
messages and send email notification with link only. In CTF 8.1, send full text
is the default email content behavior
- In CEE, "Email notifications" has three options: Message-by-message, digest
format and start page only. In CTF 8.1, email notifications are set to
"message-per-change" by default.
- In CEE, there is no character length restriction on "Topic Title", whereas,
in CTF 8.1, it is restricted to 250 characters.
- In CEE, subscription is allowed at the discussion level whereas in CTF 8.1, it
is allowed even at the thread level.
- CEE features that are not available in CTF 8.1 include: Default Discussions,
Message size, Message Header, Soft deletion, Guest Posting, User Groups,
Anonymous and Sub-list subscribers, Email Subscription, Other Recipients,
Web Post CAPTCHA, Remove deleted messages and Remove unmoderated
messages.
- In CEE, "Reply Behavior" has four options: Reply to list, To sender only,
specific header and do not reply to. In CTF 8.1, Reply to post is the only reply
behavior available.
- CTF 8.1 does not support CEE's advanced email filter options like mime types,
headers, reject content.
- In CTF 8.1, based on the user's permissions, web UI and/or web posting can be
accessed.
- By default, forum mailing list is displayed in CTF 8.1 as the display email
address.