Exporting content from V3 umbraco site to then import into new 4.1 Alpha
Hello Guys & Gals, I am planning on doing a new design for my CWS blog, all I am after is my content nodes & documentTypes.
What is the best way to export my content and then import into V4.1 Alpha, as I think i have a slighlty bloated V3 install so it will give me an opportunity to start over again.
UmbImport is not an option for 4.1 alpha. The new tree refuses to load my custom page. I hope this could be solved easily because I use the same mechanism for all my clients....
Thanks Doug. It's friday and my brain is meltdown mode!
Unfortunately cannot try the package route as V3 does not have the package creator and creating packages is manually is tedious (just think I used to handcode the package.xml for CWS !!)
I will have to take a look at umbImport from Richard then.
Are there any API coding solutions to this I could do?
I'd personally just upgrade the site to v4.0.2.1 using the documented upgrade path.
That will upgrade your templates, database, etc to the new schema & master pages.
To then get to 4.1 you need to delete the following folders:
umbraco
umbraco_client
Then copy the following folders from the 4.1 package:
bin
umbraco
umbraco_client
config
You'll have too copy some stuff from the new web.config file, best to do a side-by-side diff of them, Shannon's added some stuff to compress the CSS and JS when server which you'll need to manually add.
I'll put a how-to up on my blog in a few weeks, I'm in the process of moving hosting to a new location (due to job changes) so I'm not posting anything until that's sorted out.
So you'll have to wait until probably the end of August before I can get a post up (unless Niels wants me to put it up on the umbraco.org blog itself ;)
I would not delete but RENAME the /umbraco and /umbraco_client folders since it is possible you have items in there that you'll want to move to your upgraded installation. Some products get installed or configured in these folders (Courier, Concierge, and ImageGen come to mind, but there might be others). So keep the old folders handy so you can 'diff' them and copy over anything you need later on.
Actually Doug, a diff will be quite erroneous as there's a lot of files which have been removed from the 4.1 release. Shannon is moving them into a separate download, for the 4.1 final (for anyone who did want them) but overall the majority of files aren't of use.
Yet if you diff then it'll think you may want them back.
Just delete them, that's why you have a recycling bin isn't it, that's the backup folder :P
Exporting content from V3 umbraco site to then import into new 4.1 Alpha
Hello Guys & Gals,
I am planning on doing a new design for my CWS blog, all I am after is my content nodes & documentTypes.
What is the best way to export my content and then import into V4.1 Alpha, as I think i have a slighlty bloated V3 install so it will give me an opportunity to start over again.
Thanks,
Warren :)
The usual options... make a packge of your site; use the umbraco.config file as an xml source for importing with umbImport.
cheers,
doug.
UmbImport is not an option for 4.1 alpha. The new tree refuses to load my custom page. I hope this could be solved easily because I use the same mechanism for all my clients....
Cheers,
Richard
Thanks Doug.
It's friday and my brain is meltdown mode!
Unfortunately cannot try the package route as V3 does not have the package creator and creating packages is manually is tedious (just think I used to handcode the package.xml for CWS !!)
I will have to take a look at umbImport from Richard then.
Are there any API coding solutions to this I could do?
Warren :)
Ah so that's packages and umbImport out the window then :S
Any other ideas guys?
Warren :)
Don't forget the v3 package creator! All is not lost yet.
cheers,
doug.
Ah I now need to go and scavenge for it! Got a link to it by anychance Doug?
Warren
http://www.ucc-bln.de/de/2008/6/26/umbraco-packager-105-beta-%28en%29.aspx
enjoy!
Thanks Doug.
Do you think we should get this on our.umbraco.org just in case this blog ever goes down?
Warren :)
I'd personally just upgrade the site to v4.0.2.1 using the documented upgrade path.
That will upgrade your templates, database, etc to the new schema & master pages.
To then get to 4.1 you need to delete the following folders:
Then copy the following folders from the 4.1 package:
You'll have too copy some stuff from the new web.config file, best to do a side-by-side diff of them, Shannon's added some stuff to compress the CSS and JS when server which you'll need to manually add.
I'll put a how-to up on my blog in a few weeks, I'm in the process of moving hosting to a new location (due to job changes) so I'm not posting anything until that's sorted out.
So you'll have to wait until probably the end of August before I can get a post up (unless Niels wants me to put it up on the umbraco.org blog itself ;)
I would not delete but RENAME the /umbraco and /umbraco_client folders since it is possible you have items in there that you'll want to move to your upgraded installation. Some products get installed or configured in these folders (Courier, Concierge, and ImageGen come to mind, but there might be others). So keep the old folders handy so you can 'diff' them and copy over anything you need later on.
cheers,
doug.
Actually Doug, a diff will be quite erroneous as there's a lot of files which have been removed from the 4.1 release. Shannon is moving them into a separate download, for the 4.1 final (for anyone who did want them) but overall the majority of files aren't of use.
Yet if you diff then it'll think you may want them back.
Just delete them, that's why you have a recycling bin isn't it, that's the backup folder :P
Hey Warren,
Did you get this worked out? I'm curious which approach was successful for you-- and particularly if you tried the umbImport route, how did that go?
best,
Graham
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