What is the fully-manual migration?

In this migration, you can have several asset families for your existing PAM assets.

You will structure, directly in the PIM, all the asset families you want with their attributes and you will be able to control each step of the migration.

When do we recommend you this migration?

We recommend you using this migration if:

• You want to control each step of the process.
• Your use case doesn't fit the recommended use cases of the fully-automatic migration](full-automatic-pam-migration.html) or the family-by-family migration. 
   

What are the steps to migrate?

9 steps to migrate your PAM assets:

1. Install & Setup the migration tool
2. Export the PAM assets
3. Create your asset families
4. Split your assets file by family
5. Create your API connection
6. Import your PAM Assets
7. Update the former PAM assets collection product attributes
8. Check and test the assets migration
9. Remove or set transformations (if you want to use transformations or not) 
    

Step 1 | Install & Setup the migration tool

We built a dedicated tool CSVToAsset to migrate your PAM assets to the new Asset Manager.

To install and setup this tool, refer to its readme file. 
 

Step 2 | Export the PAM assets

First, you need to export your PAM assets in CSV files.

Run php bin/console pimee:migrate-pam-assets:export-assets <temporary-folder> <path-to-ee-installation>

with:

• temporary-folder the folder to export your PAM assets CSV files.
• path-to-ee-installation is the path of your local Enterprise Edition. If you use Docker, this value will be /srv/ee.

This command will export 2 files, named <temporary-folder>/assets.csv and <temporary-folder>/variations.csv, each of them containing the assets and the asset variations.

Step 3 | Create your asset families

In this migration, you will model all the asset families you want with their attributes, directly in the PIM.

To help you to create asset families, please read this article Create an asset family. 
 

Step 4 | Split your asset file by family

Once you have your assets.csv file containing all your assets, you will have to split it into several files.

Each file will contain the assets of a unique asset family you created in the previous step with the assets attributes as columns.

Once done, you should have several files like assets_packshots.csv, assets_instructions.csv, assets_videos.csv,...

Step 5 | Create your API connection

Create your new connection to be able to use the API. Go to your Enterprise Edition path, then:

Run php bin/console akeneo:connectivity-connection:create migrations_pam

Store these credentials into a credential file named credentials containing 4 lines in the root of the CsvToAsset folder:

• clientId,
• secret,
• username
• and password.

Don't forget to remove this file when you are done importing all your assets.

Step 6 | Import your PAM assets

Now, you will have to migrate your assets family per family. For each file you created, go to the CsvToAsset folder and run the migration process:

Run php bin/console app:migrate /path/to/assets_yourfamily.csv /path/to/variations.csv --asset-family-code=your-family-code

This command will automatically import the exported assets in the new Asset Manager.

Step 7 | Update the former PAM asset collection product attributes

Finally, we need to update the PAM asset collection product attributes to match the new asset families.

Run php bin/console pimee:assets:migrate:migrate-pam-attributes 
 

Step 8 | Check and test the migration

Yeah, well done, your assets are successfully migrated to the new Asset Manager!

But we strongly recommend you to run some checks and tests to make sure that everything is ok. You can also take some time to deep dive into our brand new Asset Manager.

To view all your assets

1. Go to the Assets menu
2. Your asset family will be selected by default and all your assets will automatically appear in the grid
3. You can search for an asset or display an asset by clicking on it

To view your asset family structure

1. Go to the Assets menu`
2. Click on the Edit family button on the top right corner of the grid
3. Family attributes are displayed in the Attributes tab, you can translate the attributes labels for each locale
4. Family properties are displayed in the Properties tab, you can translate the family labels for each locale

To display the assets linked to a product

1. Click on a product on the product grid
2. Click on the Assets tab, all the assets linked to this product will be displayed

Step 9A | Remove transformations

In the new Asset Manager, transformations are no longer mandatory.

So if you were used to having fake transformations (resize 100% or 99%) in the PAM in order to keep your reference file as it was, the only thing to do now is to remove the existing variation files migrated.

To do it, you just have to delete the attributevariation_scopable and variation_scopable_localizable in the family.

And to not define any transformation 😉 
 

Step 9B | Set transformations

If you were using some real transformations in the PAM (for example, a thumbnail transformation), the variations of the assets will be migrated during the step 2. But the transformation settings won't be migrated since we totally changed their format.

So you need to set transformation rules in the new Asset Manager. The transformations are not defined by channels anymore. They are defined by asset family, and there can be up to 10 transformations per asset family. It means that you can have several transformations for a single channel for example.

The format is a bit different but don't worry, take a look at this article About the asset transformations.

FAQ

The FAQ is available in the main article about the asset migration.