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+// Vikunja is a to-do list application to facilitate your life.
+// Copyright 2018-present Vikunja and contributors. All rights reserved.
+//
+// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+// GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+// along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+package migration
+
+import (
+	"src.techknowlogick.com/xormigrate"
+	"xorm.io/xorm"
+	"xorm.io/xorm/schemas"
+)
+
+// Old bucket configuration format (filter as string)
+type bucketConfigurationCatchup struct {
+	Title  string `json:"title"`
+	Filter string `json:"filter"`
+}
+
+// New bucket configuration format (filter as object)
+type bucketConfigurationCatchupNew struct {
+	Title  string                        `json:"title"`
+	Filter *taskCollection20241118123644 `json:"filter"`
+}
+
+// Old format project view
+type projectViewBucketsCatchup struct {
+	ID                  int64                         `xorm:"autoincr not null unique pk"`
+	BucketConfiguration []*bucketConfigurationCatchup `xorm:"json"`
+}
+
+func (projectViewBucketsCatchup) TableName() string {
+	return "project_views"
+}
+
+// New format project view
+type projectViewBucketsCatchupNew struct {
+	ID                  int64                            `xorm:"autoincr not null unique pk"`
+	BucketConfiguration []*bucketConfigurationCatchupNew `xorm:"json"`
+}
+
+func (projectViewBucketsCatchupNew) TableName() string {
+	return "project_views"
+}
+
+func init() {
+	migrations = append(migrations, &xormigrate.Migration{
+		ID:          "20251001113831",
+		Description: "catch up on bucket_configuration filter format conversions",
+		Migrate: func(tx *xorm.Engine) (err error) {
+			oldViews := []*projectViewBucketsCatchup{}
+
+			// Find views with bucket_configuration in old string format
+			// Only check views with bucket_configuration_mode = 2 (filter mode)
+			// Pattern: bucket_configuration contains "filter":"<string>" but not "filter":{"filter":
+			if tx.Dialect().URI().DBType == schemas.POSTGRES {
+				err = tx.Where("bucket_configuration_mode = 2 AND bucket_configuration::text like '%\"filter\":\"%'").
+					And("bucket_configuration::text not like '%\"filter\":{\"filter\":%'").
+					Find(&oldViews)
+			} else {
+				err = tx.Where("bucket_configuration_mode = 2 AND bucket_configuration like '%\"filter\":\"%'").
+					And("bucket_configuration not like '%\"filter\":{\"filter\":%'").
+					Find(&oldViews)
+			}
+
+			if err != nil {
+				return
+			}
+
+			// Transform each view's bucket_configuration
+			for _, view := range oldViews {
+				newView := &projectViewBucketsCatchupNew{
+					ID: view.ID,
+				}
+
+				// Convert each bucket configuration from old to new format
+				for _, configuration := range view.BucketConfiguration {
+					newView.BucketConfiguration = append(newView.BucketConfiguration,
+						&bucketConfigurationCatchupNew{
+							Title: configuration.Title,
+							Filter: &taskCollection20241118123644{
+								Filter: configuration.Filter, // Wrap string in object
+							},
+						})
+				}
+
+				// Update only the bucket_configuration column
+				_, err = tx.Where("id = ?", view.ID).
+					Cols("bucket_configuration").
+					Update(newView)
+				if err != nil {
+					return
+				}
+			}
+
+			return
+		},
+		Rollback: func(tx *xorm.Engine) error {
+			return nil
+		},
+	})
+}