Hi Lucas

Perhaps you should have a look at the CMSimport package, which you can find here http://soetemansoftware.nl/cmsimport - It allows you to easily import content from various different sources.

So if you're able to export the blog content in any of the listed formats you should be able to rather quickly import and map them to your new structure. But be a aware that it's a commercial package - First 500 imports are free though.

I think this is perhaps the best fit in this scenario - Not sure whether uSync can be of use too though.

Just my 2 cents :)

Hope it's of any use.

/Jan

Thanks Jan, I have used CMSImport before for other purposes, but hadn't thought of exporting the content first in order to import it.

However, won't this just create all new nodes with the imported content? I was hoping to keep the Node IDs intact as they are now for all Content nodes and also wanted to keep all version history for all nodes intact. I think I will lose that version history doing it this way, won't I?

Thanks for your suggestion.

Looks like you can do this programmatically using the ChangeContentType function: https://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/api-questions/59280-How-to-change-DocumentType-programmatically

It also looks like you'll have to republish all the nodes to be sure the change takes effect.

Thanks Nicholas,

It looks like that solution only works when the properties match exactly, right? The properties in my doctypes are not all the same.

Is there some property mapping I could do within that foreach loop?

I'd do what the Umbraco core does: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/75c2b07ad3a093b5b65b6ebd45697687c062f62a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/umbraco/dialogs/ChangeDocType.aspx.cs#L241

Basically, you store a mapping of old/new properties, call ChangeContentType, then set the values of those properties (based on the mappings you stored), and finally save (or publish) the content node.

Hi Lucas,

I have this hi on the feature list for Bulkmanager http://soetemansoftware.nl/bulkmanager (yet another commercial plugin from the maker of cmsimport ;-) ) . Can re-schedule some things and work on this next week, will that be on time for you?

Best,

Richard

Wow, Richard, that would be awesome.

I still have a coupe weeks before I actually start trying anything with this. Still in the estimating phase.

Thanks a lot for offering that.

Hi Lucas,

It is working already. Bit more testing before release but all looks good :)

Cheers,

Richard

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