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Vinai / groupscatalog2

Magento extension to enable you to hide categories and products from customers depending on their customer group. This is a Magento 1.6 and newer compatible version of the Netzarbeiter Customer Groups Catalog extension.
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Upgrade from Magento 1.5 #107

Closed sprankhub closed 9 years ago

sprankhub commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the extension! In an old 1.5 shop, the extension is installed in version 0.4.6. If I update the shop to 1.9, remove all old extension files and add the GroupsCatalog2 extension files, is there anything else I have to do? I read the readme entry but I am still not sure. The tool says "The old GroupsCatalog module was completely removed, migration should be complete". But I fear that it says that just because all the old extension files are gone...?

Vinai commented 9 years ago

Is the old version (GroupsCatalog vs. GroupsCatalog2) installed? You can see it in the name of the node in config/modules in the registry file.

sprankhub commented 9 years ago

The old version (GroupsCatalog) is not installed in the new 1.9 shop. Only the new version (GroupsCatalog2) is installed there.

Vinai commented 9 years ago

If the old version is installed, you have to

  1. Upgrade Magento to >= 1.6
  2. Install GroupsCatalog2
  3. Run the migration tool found under System > Tools
  4. Remove the files of the old GroupsCatalog extension.

I wrote the migration tool back when 1.6 was released for a few upgrades I had to do. That was years ago. To be honest, I'm not confident it still works... best to backup and simply try :)

Vinai commented 9 years ago

All the migration does is it moves the visibility settings on the products and categories and the config setting sfrom the old storage areas to the new tables.

sprankhub commented 9 years ago

Okay, thanks. But this can only be done with the migration tool, right? It is not done automatically by the GroupsCatalog2 extension if the old extension is not installed any more?

Vinai commented 9 years ago

No, it is not done automatically if the old extension is not installed anymore.

sprankhub commented 9 years ago

Thanks!

sprankhub commented 9 years ago

I did the migration with your tool and it runs fine. Afterwards, I still have two entries of type groupscatalog_hide_type in the DB table eav_attribute (source model groupscatalog/config_source_hidetypes_product and groupscatalog/config_source_hidetypes_category). Because of that, I get an exception when opening a product in the backend. Do you have any information for me how to handle that? Thanks again!

Vinai commented 9 years ago

Just removing them should be fine:

DELETE FROM eav_attribute WHERE attribute_code = 'groupscatalog_hide_type';