The JUpgrade component was key to this migration. I won't get into every step here but I followed this one to the T and it worked well. Now is the biggest issue I ran into afterward the process completed.

Article and categories permissions were wonky. For some reason my front-end editors couldn't edit articles on the front-end of my site. So long short, their permissions needed to be set. Is this a bug or issue with the upgrade tool? No clue! For some reason all my migrated categories were marked "Inherited" and had the message "Not Allowed" at the same time. So it appears that they didn't have the correct ACL perms.

So my fix? Open the category, then click save. After doing so somehow it gave itself the correct permissions. How did I know this? I created a new category and compared the default ACL settings. Now this wasn't the only spot. On all the articles that people edit on the front-end I needed to follow the same process. Open, then save. Poof permissions corrected. I still need to hit the JUpgrade forums to see if anyone else ran into this. It would be much better done with one sql query. I'd still like to know if this is an upgrade bug with JUpdate or just something we are all going to have to do because of the new 1.6 ACL features. If anyone has some comments or insight pleas post comments below.

Other than that, I will admit that 1.6 rocks!!!! Unlimited categories is extremely helpful. I love the admin overhaul, I find things are more logically grouped. I love the one view for extensions as well. Just use the drop down box to select, component, plug-in or module and bam, your display changes. Oh and the gantry template framework is even cooler in 1.6.

I'll post some more as I finish up my intranet migration into 1.6. I'm sure I'll have some other findings to share with you all.

Cheers,

Nick

"Raise the fist of the Joomla child" m/

Being so active within the Joomla Development Community and recently talking so much about the benefits of social networking recently I was thinking about all of the resources that I knew about that most other people using Joomla probably never knew existed. I thought I would share some of these valuable resources here with you.

For those that have a Twitter account and want to follow primarily Joomla related tweets here are a few links that you WON'T want to miss. You can follow everyone on these lists in one easy click.

Main list of Joomla Experts
http://tweepml.org/Joomla/

Some of the best Joomla Extension Developers
http://tweepml.org/Best-Joomla-Extensions-Developers/

http://tweepml.org/joomlaextensions/

Some of the best Joomla Template Developers
http://tweepml.org/joomlatemplates/

 

There are also 2 additional and might I add, very complete lists of RSS feeds from everything Joomla that you can imagine. 

http://start.joomlaworks.gr/

http://joomla.alltop.com/

 

Although this is a short list of resources in this blog post if you click on these links you will find that these links will provide you with an extreme amount of very valuable information right at your fingertips.

I suggest that you bookmark these links as they are constantly being updated and added to.

Enjoy!

Ad agencies in Minneapolis are teaming up to tell a story: "Minneapolis is a powerhouse center for advertising services" -- read the full story in the New York Times.

Shouldn't we be doing something similar in Chicago, around the topic of Content Management System (CMS) services?

Not sure how to put a concerted effort together around this -- as the ad agencies did in Minneapolis -- how can we work together to make something like this happen?

Joe Scarry is head project manager for Chicago Joomla web developer and web design firm Arc Technology Group.