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Question Does there need to be a "Migrating from PGV" forum
- choyk
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- fisharebest
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- choyk
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I was trying to corral the questions that pertain specifically to PGV migrations since I assume there probably will be quite a few people who will eventually come down that track.
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Sure, I'm sure Nigel could create a Forum with the title you propose, but does that actually make people too lazy, asking questions prior to simply reading the instructions and using the wizard? I think, based on experience, probably so. It is incumbent upon users of O/S software to try to acquaint themselves with the product. While the webtrees team is here to help stamp out bugs and to suggest solutions to other issues, we have limited numbers and time and can ill afford to support something that - IMHO - doesn't need support. I've done over 100 wizard transfers on several different configurations and AFAIK, it is pretty self-explanatory and without issue.
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- kiwi
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Here: wiki.webtrees.net/Converting_from_PhpGedViewaxel wrote: ... where? Here .... Wiki FAQs ?
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The same information is in the ReadMe file included with the downloaded webtrees package.
On the original question from Kerry - I would tend to agree with Stephen. Yes, there have been questions, but as webtrees was started as a branch from PGV I see them as just part of "normal" issues. Also, (wearing my site admin hat) I don't want too many different forum sections. It just gets messy. We will get more over time I'm sure, especially as major releases occur (e.g. ver 2.0 etc).
We have however discussed possibly adding one for PGV transfer issues where the PGV version is earlier than the wizard can handle (pre-4.2.3) - but as yet the simple recommendation of first upgrading to 4.2.3 seems to have covered everyone's needs.
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- WGroleau
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True, but aren't a lot of them really FAQ, SAQ, and OAQ (pronounced sack, fack, and whack)?writing FAQ's before they're asked assumes a level of omniscience not usually found amongst geeks
That is, Frequently Asked Questions, Sometimes Asked Questions, and Ought-to-be Asked Questions.
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I strongly agree, there should be a forum or topic area for migration. Yes the migration utility is great. But it does not answer questions if a problem arises.
Wiki's are not updated often enough and install notes only address the happy path
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- fisharebest
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I strongly have no opinion one way or the other
I generally access the forum using the "recent posts" option, so it doesn't matter to me which categories/areas exist. It might matter to people who browse the site.
Creating a separate area could have two effects
1) reassure people that help is available for the migration
2) indicate that migration is so problematic it needs a special help forum.
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- hartenthaler
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Now I still have the problem, that all the umlauts and other special characters are destroyed after the migration (see forum webtrees.net/forums/10-help-for-ver-10-l...er-transfer-from-pgv ). This was not indicated before in the webtrees documents and is an old problem of phpgedview. In the meantime I found the information that there is a procedure to modify the phpgedview tables before starting the migration. Up to now this procedure is not working correct for my installation. When this problem will be solved, I have to de-install webtrees to get the possibility to use the migration tool again.
So a little bit more information about the possible problems during the migration from phpgedview to webtrees may be helpful. One of the major problems of phpgedview was that there was no good documentation. webtrees has now Forums, wiki, Bug Reports available and people who are supporting the users. Thanks for that!
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