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Hi, we are migrating Drupal articles to Salesforce Knowledge and we have some translated articles not linked with Original language articles, how can we link the translated articles with original if we can't edit in any way the MasterVersion Id field to relate both? Is there any way to do it?

Thank you

#Knowledge #Lightning Knowledge Migration #Lighting Knowledge #Knowledge Article Translation

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  1. Feb 10, 2023, 11:09 PM

     As per the case description, I understand that you are looking to upload translated articles associated to master article(Knowledge__kav object.)

     

     I have tested this in my demo org and found a way to achieve this by creating a lookup field,

     

     i. Created a lookup field(ParentKnowledge) to knowledge.

     ii. Translated an article(Creates a new Spanish article with draft status)

     iii. Updated the field ParentKnowledge with the English article in the newly created article.

     iv. The translated article is associated with Master article.

     

     Also, I have tried updating the article using data loader(refer the attched article.csv file).

     

     Please find the attachments for reference.

     

     Note the following restrictions:

     

     It's only possible to update draft articles via Data Loader and there are restrictions on how you can export or query knowledge articles.

     

     It's not possible to update an article's PublishStatus via the Data Loader and it's necessary edit each article you would like to update to create a draft version.

     

     There is no standard or supported means to mass update articles to draft status. They must be set to draft status one at a time via the user interface. 

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Classic Article to Lightning Knowledge Migration

Hi - We are planning to migrate from Classic Article to Lightning Knowledge. We have a public community where we are using public URLs for our knowledge base. Will the URLs break post-migration or will it be still working and we can still access the knowledge by using those URLs? 

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Hi, I'm planning the migration from Classic to Lightning Knowledge at the moment for my org and I'm going through the documentation. Salesforce recommends using a full-copy sandbox to test the migration but I only have a developer sandbox. 

My question is, does Salesforce Support require you to carry out a test migration in a full-copy sandbox before they enable the migration tool in Production? Or would a developer sandbox be sufficient?

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  1. Jan 27, 2021, 4:39 PM
    @Aiden Kellegher - You are not required to do a test migration in a full copy Sandbox. Salesforce wants you to try things out since once you flip the switch from Classic Knowledge to Lightning Knowledge, you can't go back. So you will want to enable Lightning Knowledge in a Sandbox and see how it looks and works and make sure you are comfortable with things before you enable it in Production. Hope this helps!
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Hi, We have a customer ORG A(Classic) and need to migrate all knowledge articles to ORG B(Lightning) .

Could you please guide if it is possible and how.

Looked at Lightning migration tool(But that can basically help move/convert  knowledge with in the org)

 

Appreciate the help.

 

1.Planning to convert existing Classic org to Lightning.

2.Use the Knowledge Lightning Migration tool to convert knowledge(classic) to Lightning.

3.Is there an easy way to move knowledge from Lightning(ORG A) to Lightning(Org B)?

 

THanks much in advance.

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Hey all!

 

Quick Question (I couldn't find the answer to this in Documentation. After the Lightning Knowledge Migration is 100% complete, what would a user see in Classic in regards to Knowledge?  Is Classic Knowledge still there?  Is it gone?  Still there, but read only?

 

Thanks!

Roy

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  1. Dec 16, 2019, 2:21 PM
    Custom File attachment fields do not show up in Classic, so existing attached files will only be accessible in LEX after migration. These files appear in the Related List in LEX. Most knowledge functionality will remain the same in Classic, but you will notice the Article Type filter is gone from the Classic Knowledge search options and is NOT replaced by the Article Record Type. This is functionality that you simply lose. Also note that some of your reports may need rebuilding to use the new Knowledge object AND that if you have been using field tracking for anything, you must turn this back on after migration (since it must be disabled prior).
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Just joined. How long should I expect 300 articles to take to migrate. Mostly text. Thanks. Troy

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  1. Nov 21, 2019, 1:25 PM
    Hello @Troy Center, if you mean "migrate" using the Lightning Knowledge Migration Tool, even if in your case you mostly have text, the tool is really powerful and fast :)
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I rolled back a Lightning Knowledge migration in a sandbox and now I get an error when I try to edit an article, "Error:You do not have sufficient privileges to perform this action. Please contact your administrator."  I have checked the profile, it still looks good, (sys admin).  Any thoughts as to why I'm getting this error?

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  1. Oct 28, 2019, 1:43 PM
    Our case outcome looks similar at this point, with Salesforce saying the "Insufficient Privileges" error upon LKMT cancellation is a derivative of this known issue: "Long and Rich text fields truncated for custom objects in Full and Partial sandbox copies when no sharing is present" https://success.salesforce.com/issues_view?id=a1p3A000000KOscQAG

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    They are granting us a refresh and we'll test both the ability to cancel and the full migration outcome again.

    @Benjamin Smith Let us know how your migration plays out, if the same issue pops up, or if your files migration outcome seems successful, etc.
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Sharing a case study with you all, on a Lightning Knowledge Migration project that was recently concluded at my workplace: https://www.popcornapps.com/work/lightning-migration-knowledge-articles

 

Hope this helps.

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Is there any documentation or guidance on how to perform a lightning knowledge migration with minimal impact on analytics dataflows? It does not appear the migration tool is able to update analytics dataflow nodes with the newly created knowledge object. This means the separate article type objects cannot be disabled until they are excised from any dataflows leveraging them. Just straight removing these items from the dataflow(s) leads to be a bit of a rabbit hole where eventually the dataflow cannot be saved. As a proof of concept on the migration itself, one of our admins simply uploaded blank json to the dataflows that were stopping the migration from completing. However, I do not think this is a viable option in our production org as this will lead to us needing to rebuild all of our analytics data from the ground up. Any insight/help here would be appreciated.

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