The migration to a new web Content Management System (CMS) started at 9am today (Thursday 31 October).
A copy of our website content will be made, so any changes made in OpenText between 31 October and 5 December will be live on www.abdn.ac.uk but will not be automatically reflected in the new T4 site.
If you, or colleagues, have to edit your OpenText pages between the above dates, changes will be logged. Full instructions and the reports regarding these changes will be supplied to all CMS users. You will have to re-apply any changes manually in T4 after it has been handed over to you, which will be after the ‘migration handover’ (see below) and as soon as the project team has completed vital migration tasks.
You won’t need to reproduce changes made via News, Events, Blogs, Prospectus, Staff Profiles or any other university content application.
Key Project Dates
Thursday 31 October - Live migration begins
A copy of the live website is taken, and the vendor begins the process of programmatically importing all OpenText content into T4. From this point any changes made in OpenText will not be reflected in the T4 site. This stage of the process will take three weeks.
Monday 4 November – Lockout from T4
Between Monday 4 November and Wednesday 20 November the vendor will need exclusive access to our T4 environment to migrate and configure all of our content. Training will have to pause between these dates, but your progress will be saved.
Wednesday 20 November - Migration Handover
The vendor hands over the T4 site to our project team who have two weeks to check the migrated content, install all associated applications, and configure the site for go live.
Thursday 5 December - Go Live
The new T4 site will replace the OpenText site.
Web Content Management System Migration Begins