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Drupal 11: Migrating From Jadu Into LocalGov Drupal: Part 4

This is the fourth article in a series looking at migrating from Jadu into LocalGov Drupal (LGD) for the Central Bedfordshire site. In the first article we looked at the Jadu API itself and setting things up so that we could make calls to the API and parse the XML data using the migration systems available.

In the second article we looked at reproducing Jadu URLs to create redirects for migrated content, even though the Jadu API doesn't contain any URL information.

In the third article we looked at a more complex example of migration, taking documents and pages from Jadu and creating a guide pages from that data.

Now it is time to move onto what became the most complex part of the Central Bedfordshire migration, which was moving directories data from Jadu to LGD. Directories were used on the Jadu site to store all sorts of information, which included schools, the location of car parks, contact information of homecare providers, and even an a-to-z glossary of recycling. This data served different purposes on the site, but it was all hand created and important to bring across during the migration work.

In this article we will look at the Jadu data we needed to fetch to find directory information, and how that data was injected into the LGD structure available.

First, let's look at how we get directory information out of Jadu.

Jadu Directories API

Directories in Jadu can be fetched using the directories index at the following endpoint.

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