So I migrated my first Joomla 1.6 site in the last few days. Was it easy...sort of. I went through a 1.0 to 1.5 migration so I sort of knew what to expect.  This upgrade was slightly different from the last. For details on exactly how I did it checkout out this wiki post on joomla.org http://docs.joomla.org/Migrating_from_Joomla_1.5_to_Joomla_1.6.

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/