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Hi, I am Odoo user of Version 9 community Edition. The funtions are totally enough for our daily business requests. But we wanna uprade our v.9 to uptodate version 11. But in October the Odoo v12 will be released. What is better? To upgrade to v11 or better directly upgrade to v12.
Thanks for any advice.
Michael
Depends on your database size and complexity you can either export/import data, or you can migrate whole database. Both ways seems to be pretty time consuming :)
In our small business we also use odoo9c and we are using contacts and project management apps, so not a big deal. To run multiple versions (and instances) I use python virtualenv, which I prepare separately for each odoo version I plan to deploy. (I also run virtualenv for production).
I decided to upgrade to odoo12 as it has significant features improvement - specially the responsive mobile version - which I like.
I followed oca/openupgrade \tutorial\\ \;and\ use\ \;\automated migration tool. Migrating to odoo10 was relative simple as it is build on python2.7 (same as odoo9).
But migrating to odoo11 is more complex as it is build on python3, so there is lots of changes. At the end I was not able to fix all the errors after the migration to v11 (I'm not too experienced in fixing db models etc), however the server runs. But I was not able to migrate to odoo12 as migration script does not support it (yet).
As our database is not very big and we are using only few apps I finally decided to install brand new database and import the data from our old odoo9c. This doesn't seems to be easiest approach, but considering the time I spent on migration of whole db and fixing subsequent errors I think it is the best approach in situation like this (small business, small data sets).
Hope this helps a bit.
Thanks for sharing this valuable experience.
Before migrating to newer version do your research on:
- new features as well as missing features in the newer versions. For example Odoo 10 has customer issues, where Odoo 12 does not (in the Community version), from 11.0 Accounting is only in the Enterprise version
- do you want to go Odoo Enterprise (enterprise users get free updates for base modules)
Once you decided choose one of the following:
1) Let Odoo or Odoo Partner migrate and sign up for Odoo Enterprise
2) Find a company or a specialist to migrate to newer version of Community
3) Migrate by yourself using OpenMigrate (this needs some skills and time and it won't migrate custom modules)
4) Install newer version and migate yourself by using export-import to csv - note that this is not recommended on a large scale as you will get plenty of errors on the way + reserve loads of time.
Finally, the answer for the question - wait or migrate? It really depends on your funds, expected features(Accounting is not in the Odoo Enterprise since Odoo 11), skills (with proper skills you can do it on your own) & time.
Hi Michael Wang,
I think the migration process is a step by step process. If you need to migrate first you need to migrate to V10 then V11..etc. If you are migrating in manually and you are going to migrate directly to V11, Just wait for the release of Odoo V12. That is far better.
https://medium.com/@nikhilkrishnan/odoo-version-12-new-features-eb5675e063ff
Regards,
Nikhilkrishnan
The link you provided is just odoo12 feature list which is not related to odoo database migration task.
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The database migration is quite complex task. I choose to export (csv,xml) data from odoo9 and import them to odoo12. This however produce unexpected behavior during export as well as import. Second option is to purchase enterprise (for month or so) and let odoo stuff to manage migration. However I did not find it straight as enterprise for month can only be hosted on odoo cloud. So I'm bit stuck with the migration. If you did manage odoo9 db to get work in odoo12, can you please share your experience?