Tag Migration: Overview
If your store has been around for a few
years, the tag migration tool inside of
Datafi can help you migrate from legacy
tags, which is very unstructured data,
into meta fields and categories, which
is much more structured data. So an
example might be you might have used
tags in your store in the past to
signify things like color and size. Now
you can migrate that data for color into
a color meta field so it's in one
separate place a structured place and
then migrate the tags for size to a size
meta field so it's a different
structured place and that gives more
structured data to the internet to
understand the nuances of your products
better. So if you go into the tag
migration tool there's lots of options
in there for you to migrate tags. Now,
in this store that I'm looking at, we've
already set up lots and lots of tag
migrations and are still setting up
other ones. And what you'll see here are
the different sections that we put tags
into. So, when you first open it up,
it's going to look at all the existing
tags that are in all of your products in
your entire product catalog. So, this
product catalog is very large with lots
of tags. If I loaded it up for the first
time, it would take a minute for the
datafy tool to analyze all that and put
it up here and display for me. And when
it does, what it it shows you in this
first area, tags with no migrations,
which is, you know, all the tags in your
product catalog that you haven't
configured a migration for inside of the
datafi tool. And then the next section
is tags not to migrate. So these are
ones that we specified already saying
we're not going to migrate these tags.
We're going to leave them as tags in the
future system. And what you could do,
you know, just say this bestseller tag
for example, we want to keep that as a
tag and not migrate it to a meta field.
We could just click on this and say no
migration needed and then bestseller is
going to move from the tags with no
migration section to the tags to not
migrate section.
So now if I look in here, you know, I'd
have to look through because they're not
in alphabetical order to find the one
that we're looking for. Um, now let's
scroll down here to tags with save
migrations. So, if I take an individual
tag up here and set up a migration for
it, which we're going to have a separate
video on how to do that because there's
some options to think through, then that
tag would move from here to the tags
with save migrations
um section. And then we also have the
ability to do bulk migrations. So here
you can see we had a little bit of
structure in our tags that anything we
wanted that was a size, we prefaceed
that tag with size underscore. And that
was a common convention in legacy
systems to allow some structure inside
of the unstructured world of tags. So we
have the ability to do tag migrations
and there's lots of choices there also.
We'll have separate videos for once
again. But the way you start a bulk
migration is you hit the select many
button and that'll start walking you
through setting up bulk migrations. Like
I said, there'll be another video for
that in the future.
So then you have these different
sections of tags with no migrations.
Tags we're consciously deciding not to
migrate. Tags, individual tags we've
already set up migrations for, and then
groups of tags we've set up a bulk
migration for. And you can click on a
tag in the to be, you know, tags with no
migration and it'll it'll help you walk
through the process to create a
migration for it and it'll show up down
here. You can also click on a tag here
and undo the migration. It'll show you
what the migration is. You can go in and
change it, edit it, undo it, cancel it,
and all those things. So, if you have a
large product catalog, which this store
actually has quite a large product
catalog and has used tags robustly for
years, um it's going to be some work to
go through this entire set of tags and
figure out how to convert them to the
right structures of meta fields and
categories that you want to use in your
future product taxonomy. But this tool
will walk you through all of those steps
and you can build this whole new
structure of product data that you want
to use step by step by step and then you
know once you're done you'll have a much
more robust set of product data. So use
tag migrator to take your legacy tags
migrate them to more structured meta
fields and categories.
Thank you.