Migrate of specific plugins from GLPI 10 to GLPI 11 🆕

This procedure includes the migration of Generic Objects, Fields, and FormCreator

This procedure is based on the installation described in this article:

Updating GLPI

It must, of course, be adapted to your own environment.

Here you will find the procedure to migrate GLPI 10 to GLPI 11, as well as the following plugins:

• Generic Objects (now included in the core)

• Fields (required if you use Fields with FormCreator)

• FormCreator (now included in the core)

We recommend updating these three plugins before beginning your migration. This will save you from having to install the plugins on your new instance in order to prepare for their migration. Fields, however, must be installed in all cases.

If you have two or more of the plugins listed above, migrate them in the order indicated.

If you are using a Cloud version, plugin migration will be automatic. Migration from GLPI 10 to GLPI 11 will be available upon request only (coming soon).

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Plugin migration

Generic Objects

• If your plugin was not up to date before the migration (version prior to 2.14.14), please download and activate the plugin from the marketplace. Otherwise, proceed to the section ‘Enter the following command’.

Generic Object plugin installed and activated

Generic Objects plugin enabled

If you are migrating to a new instance, remember to copy the plugin files from the /files/_plugins/genericobject directory to the new files/_plugins/ directory of your new instance.

By clicking on the wrench icon, you can view the items detected by the plugin that will be migrated.

Steps to migrate

Assets to migrate to assets definitions

• Run the following command

For Ubuntu and similar systems:

sudo -u www-data php bin/console migration:genericobject_plugin_to_core

For CentOS and similar systems:

sudo -u apache php bin/console migration:genericobject_plugin_to_core

The process may take some time if you have a large amount of data to migrate. You should get a result similar to the following:

[============================] 100%
> 2 custom assets imported successfully.
> 1 "server" object imported successfully.
> 1 "videoprojector" object imported successfully.
Migration is complete.
🛈 Display preferences and saved searches related to a `genericobject` type must be 
recreated manually.
✓ 6 items created.

The migrated elements will be visible from the park as well as from the Generic Objects plugins.

Post-migration verification of Generic objects

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Fields

This step is required if you use Fields with FormCreator.

If you are migrating to a new instance, remember to copy the plugin files from the /files/_plugins/fields directory to the new files/_plugins/ directory of your new instance.

This is not a migration per se, but you must ensure that the plugin is present and enabled.

Fields plugin installed and enabled

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FormCreator

• If your plugin was not up to date before the migration (version prior to 2.13.10), please install and activate the FormCreator plugin. Otherwise, proceed to the section ‘Enter the following command’.

FormCreator plugin isntalled and enabled

• From Tools > Formcreator EOL Info, you can view the number of forms to be migrated and those natively present in GLPI (2 by default).

Steps to migrate

Number of forms to migrate

• Then run the following command

For Ubuntu and similar systems:

sudo -u www-data php bin/console migration:formcreator_plugin_to_core

For CentOS and similar systems:

sudo -u apache php bin/console migration:formcreator_plugin_to_core

The process may take some time if you have a large amount of data to migrate. You should get a result similar to the following:

[============================] 100%
Migration is complete.
✓ 51 items created.
✓ 21 items reused.

You can view the result from the migration status via Tools > Formcreator EOL Info.