Import / Export Content

[viebig]

Import and Export Content simple as that

[Pierre M.]

I find your specification a bit light : please elaborate at least on external formats.

Pierre M.

[viebig]

Ok Pierre,

Example,

Select pages on the Pages Section

There should be an option to export a XML for example.

In another site I can Go to Pages and import the XML, and select where in my hierarchy to put it.

That´s just an idea, I know i get get a little bit trick with many content blocks, but for simples pages and the main content block should be easy and useful.

[Dr.CSS]

OH it has that capabilities already it's called the "copy/paste" module.....  ha ha ha just joking...

[viebig]

yes mark,    I´m using copy/paste module for a while...

[cyberman]

There should be an option to export a XML for example.

In another site I can Go to Pages and import the XML, and select where in my hierarchy to put it.

There's a module named XML Export

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/xmlexport/

Maybe it could be modified for import ...

[Pierre M.]

Example, Select pages on the Pages Section, There should be an option to export a XML for example.
In another site I can Go to Pages and import the XML, and select where in my hierarchy to put it.
That´s just an idea...

OK, thank you for this example. You may be interested by the sitepusher module.

Back to thinking laudly :
-behind your idea, this is an interesting SUBexport/import feature,
-because if you don't use an XML schema as a crossCMS format but keep inside CMSms installs, there is no need of XML and the current SQL level import/export does the job fine for whole sites.

Pierre M.

[viebig]

Example, Select pages on the Pages Section, There should be an option to export a XML for example.
In another site I can Go to Pages and import the XML, and select where in my hierarchy to put it.
That´s just an idea...

OK, thank you for this example. You may be interested by the sitepusher module.

Back to thinking laudly :
-behind your idea, this is an interesting SUBexport/import feature,
-because if you don't use an XML schema as a crossCMS format but keep inside CMSms installs, there is no need of XML and the current SQL level import/export does the job fine for whole sites.

Pierre M.

Yes that´s true Pierre, does the job for whole sites. But I had to copy and paste more than 50 templates with many content blocks to another site in a different parent page. That´s a lot of job.

I know it´s no so common but it can be really useful for this type of case, when you´re moving permanently a site to another.

[Dr.CSS]

50 templates, I hope you meant pages, because you can move templates with the export/import button...

[viebig]

sorry, 50 pages!

[Dr.CSS]

I know I'm just messin with you, BTW thanks for the object tag...

[JeremyBASS]

Is this something I could help with... I just got a project that would need to do this... @viebig you and I were talking about the project with the limiting pages in the menu...

Anyways as it turns out there is a lot of these doctors... and since that is the cataloger that is used, that’s a lot of pages, 200 some odd by completion... and importing/export them would be the easiest way to handle the fast changing roster of the doctors... plus they already have them in excel so with a micro they could have it all built and ready for import...

A little hints before I start? it's something I have to do anyways...

[JeremyBASS]

I not a great programmer... but this is what I’m thinking is that basically this is what is suppose to happen, the way it functions... it's a mod for osCommerce called Easy Populate & Products Attributes...It is a great mod for the... and I was just thinking that may-be it could be adapted?  I mean the way it works and handles things.  As I was looking through the DB it seemed to me that there was 4 tables?

content
content_props
content_props_seq
content_seq

.... anyways... just some thoughts be for I go under way on it over the weekend... any ideas suggestions help would be great... thanks...
jeremyBass

[JeremyBASS]

So I think this is the road map I'll be using... open to other ideas... but I'll have to get something functioning sooner then later... I'm also thinking that the more knowledgeable people with CMSMS may know where there may be pieces to recycle on for this... just some thoughts...
jeremyBass

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

what do you call a "format key" ?
BTW, you are working at the db level (seems sane if you master the db schema). You may be interested in trying the http level too : search (with google) for a thread "wget automation".

Pierre M.