Please help!

I'm in the middle of a (slow, painful) upgrade from Joomla 1.5 to 3.2. The problem I have is that the K2 access level and parameters are not recognised even though they are transferred 100% intact to the DB. It wouldn't be much of an issue if it wasn't for the Metadata information, which is different for each item (the other parameters can be fixed easily enough by inheritance).

I really need to find a solution in order to avoid having to update over 1000 separate categories/items... I can fix the access level issue by doing a bulk change in the DB but this won't work for the individual Metadata information...

I've attached a PDF which shows the comparison between what's in the DB and what's in the Joomla backend.

I'd really appreciate some feedback asap, and have tried to make it as clear as possible in order to make it useful for other users.

Do you find any error messages while viewing or editing categories/items?

Make sure that the error reporting is set to Development, check for errors, then set it back to its current value.

If you find any errors copy/past it here.

I'm not a programmer but I can't see anything obvious in the admin-side debug. The DB query for the category I used as an example in the pdf attachment, id 1 (see original post), does not return any errors. It is the same for all categories/items as the access and parameters values are not being picked up from the DB, with empty/default values for these fields being returned instead.

@Adam

How you upgraded ? Did you use an extension for that? The params are stored in JSON format in Joomla! 2.5 or later while in Joomla! 1.5 are stored in INI format. The extension you used for the upgrade should have handled this.

I upgraded using SPupgrade... I will try and retransfer the relevant tables that way, but I'm having problems with memory allocation that I can't yet solve (not even with php.ini or .htaccess) preventing me from clearing the logs.

I will report back with the outcome.

Thanks for the replies guys.

I have just solved the problem of clearing the SPUpgrade history log which has enabled me to do a clean re-transfer of all of the K2 items and categories via SPUpgrade (in case anyone needs to know, the item view has to match that of K2), but unfortunately still no success with either access level or parameters... I will carry on with the upgrade and leave this issue until last, otherwise just update the metadata manually via cut and paste (1000+ times!).

@Adam

Since you used an extension for upgrading i suggest that you ask it's developers for help. The extension should migrate the parameters as well. It's not a hard task. Maybe there is a setting there you have missed.

@Lefteris I am indeed in the middle of that process. I will report back with the results. Thanks

Solved!

Basically, for anyone upgrading using SP Upgrade with third-party extensions, use the extensions transfer option rather than the database transfer option because the latter method, despite seeming to work (I had no trouble with some other extensions) does not fully convert the format. This is why some information was visible and some not - the K2 parameters were ignored. Here is a link to the SP Upgrade instructions on this provided to me by the developer - applicable to Joomla 3.2

I hope other people find this thread useful.

Thanks all

Adam

I ma glad you solved. Let us know if you face further issues.