Migrate from Plumber to Workflow
Umbraco Workflow is backwards compatible with Plumber data. However, with a new default namespace constituting a major breaking change any existing customization or extension needs to be updated.
To migrate from an Umbraco installation with an existing Plumber installation to Umbraco Workflow, follow these steps:
Site running on SQL Server database
Site running on SQLite database
- 1.Uninstall Plumber and remove the
/App_Plugins/Plumber
folder. - 2.Upgrade your project to Umbraco 11.
- 3.
- 4.Build the application.
SQL is the preferred database provider for production websites.
- 1.Uninstall Plumber and remove the
/App_Plugins/Plumber
folder. - 2.Upgrade your project to Umbraco 11.
- 3.Make a copy of the
Value
column from theWorkflowSettings
table. - 4.Delete the
WorkflowSettings
table. - 5.Update
WorkflowTaskInstance
table to allow null values in the GroupId column. - 6.
- 7.Build the application.
- 8.Update the
WorkflowSettings
table to restore the previous data to theValue
column.
All your existing workflow data and settings are not affected and will be available on your upgraded site.
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