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Links are not processed during 2003-2007 migartion

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Kate Posted: Wed, Oct 28 2009 11:38 AM

Issue:

A target site has a list with links which refer to wrong URL.

 Workaround:

 Migration Manager does not process links during migration. So, you need to change URLs manually when migration completes.

Links are stored in database as a relative URL. If during migration only host name is changed the link is broken.

For example:

Source site has a list with the "Hyperlink or Picture" field type. And there is the following item:

 

When you perform migration of  the http://ksps:81 site to a new target site collection with the http://kmoss/sites/OldRoot URL, the list has the following list item:

If a user tries to open the URL he sees error message, because the document URL now is http://kmoss/sites/OldRoot/Shared Documents/How it works.doc. The /sites/OldRoot part is not here

 

But if you migrate the http://ksps:81 site as a new root site collection (http://kmoss) (i.e. web application name is changed only), the link will work. In this case the link description stays original.

 

 

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