Is Collections the new Articles?

# switch ArticlesContainer -> CollectionContainer
# the res. ID I want to migrate is 11

UPDATE `modx_site_content` SET `class_key` = replace(class_key, 'ArticlesContainer', 'CollectionContainer') WHERE id=11;

# switch class_key to go back to default document view for children

UPDATE `modx_site_content` SET `class_key` = replace(class_key, 'Article', 'modDocument') WHERE parent=11;

# Change template 49 -> 57

UPDATE `modx_site_content` SET `template` = replace(template, '49', '57') WHERE parent=11;

I would work out a quickie SQL to set the Articles' resources parent and any other relevant fields WHERE parent = <id of="" parent="" articles="" resource=""> and run that from phpMyAdmin or Sequel Pro or whatever your database access method is.

You could get fancy and make a proper MODX function out of it using getCollection to get all of the Articles' children, the loop through them setting the values and saving them. Put the snippet on a resource, and View that resource to run the snippet. If you have a lot of them, use getIterator instead.

It's been a while since I've worked with Articles, so you'll need to take a look at the database and see what settings are given to Articles' children and what settings are given to Collections children. I'm pretty sure that 'hidemenu' is set for Articles but not for Collections, you might want to change that to 0.</id>

I read the entry on Collections in the RTFM, but it isn't quite clear to me how to use Collections to set up a blog. And putting resources in collections, is that only in the backend or does it get populated to the front-end? That's also not quite clear to me.

Is there more information on how to use collections to set up a blog?

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