If planning a skip-level upgrade, be sure to also review the upgrade notes in the following sections. Upgrade notes for subsequent versions of Identity Manager also apply to your upgrade.
If you are upgrading from an Identity Manager version 6.x installation and you want to start using the new Identity Manager end-user pages, you must manually change the system configuration ui.web.user.showMenu to true for the horizontal navigation bar to display. (ID-14901)
Also, if you want the new end-user dashboard to display on the end-user home page, you must manually change the end-user form mapping for Form Type endUserMenu. Go to Configure > Form and Process Mapping > for Form Type ’endUserMenu’. Change the Form Name Mapped To to be End User Dashboard.
You should also update the mapping for Form Type endUserWorkItemListExt. Change the Form Name Mapped To to be End User Approvals List.
If you are upgrading from version 6.0 and using LocalFiles, you must export all of your data before upgrading and then re-import the data after doing a clean installation of 8.1. (ID-15366)