Tag Migration: Bulk Migrate
All right, this video is going to cover
one of the really powerful parts of the
tag migration feature and that is bulk
migrating tags. So here on dataf fi I'm
going to scroll down to the tag manager
right here. Click open
and your goal when migrating tags you
can see in this store there's thousands
and thousands of tags. uh stores around
for a long time and we're moving
everything that we can into meta fields
because then it's more structured and
therefore discoverable.
So what we want to do in the end is get
this bucket of tags with no migrations
down to be empty. And you can see we've
done most of the store, but there's one
here left where you see a lot of these
tags left start with material
underscore, right? And that was a common
convention we did in tags is we would
start all the tags that were part of a
bucket in this case material and we'd
start that tag with material then
underscore and then different filter
apps would then bring those together
remove the material underscore and then
show easy care as a um filter or
metallic leaf or modal as filters. So
what we want to do is we want to migrate
all of those instead of individually
deciding one by one and setting up the
migrations. We want to do that in bulk.
So we're going to start with the select
many button here. And we're going to
select material under or type in
material.
And that then picks all the different
tags that start with material
underscore. And you can see there's 23
of them. and one already has a
migration. So, we can go look at that
one and see what's going on. My guess is
it's going to be under the tags to not
migrate. Um, let's see. These are in
alphabetical order.
It's not there. So, let's check under
tags with save migrations.
See if there's a material one in there.
Material acrylic. There we go. So
I'm going to remove that
from this list so we can make it part of
the bulk migration.
So there's nice error checking in there
so you can make sure that you don't have
overlapping migrations that you're
setting up.
So now there's 23 of them and none of
them are conflicting. So, we're going to
start the bulk migration process here.
And what we're going to do is we're
going to pick what meta field we want to
migrate this to. So, we're going to
select our meta field
and we'll scroll through our list of
meta fields. We're going for the
material one
right there.
Done.
And now what we want to look at um is
you know for example this one here
digital print
there's no option selected because what
the app did is it pulled up that metap
field and it found a value in that meta
field already for acrylic. So it's like
it knows that this acrylic tag is going
to go to the metap field value of
acrylic. And here you can see all the
different values we've already put in.
And a lot of these we had to put in
while doing this process. Um, but down
here under the digital print, well,
digital print, is that a material or is
that a format? And in this case, I'm
going to say that's really not a
material. This is wrong, wrongly
classified. So, I'm going to exclude
this one from the process. And easy care
sounds like a feature to me, not a
material. So, I'm also going to exclude
that one. And now I can scroll down this
list and see the rest of them are all
good. Now if one of them you know like
the digital print want let's just go
back to easy care here right um if we
wanted to make easy care a value in the
meta field what we could do in that case
is we could add a new entry
of easy care
and this uh is actually a meta object
with two fields right the label and the
material and then you select the other
material for it now easyare is not
actually a material so I'm not going to
save this, but that is a way for you to
um if there is no match, you can add a
new entry into that meta field from
within the tool. I'm going to exclude
that one. So now what we have is we have
two excluded tags of the 23 and 21 of
the other ones are going to be migrated.
So, I'm going to save this migration
and then I can run the migration or I
can just leave it in my set of
migrations that have been set up. So now
if we go back to the tags with no
migrations, you'll see that that list is
much shorter. But we have the material
digital print and the material easy care
and I can decide to migrate those to
other meta fields or choose not to
migrate them. Hopefully that helps you
understand how to do bulk tag
migrations.