Hi Matthew,

If I understand correctly. You have an already existing site? CMSImport will only insert records, or update records that are previous imported with CMSImport It is possible to have a dynamic location if you add 3 lines of code in the importing event. But changing doctypes is not possible since Umbraco doesn't allow a document type of a document to be changed. Maybe you can import per doctype?

Cheers,

Richard

Thanks Richard,

I don't need the import to change the doc type of a record, I just need the import to work for whatever doctype it finds at the specified path.

The 'dynamic location' sounds like it might be what I need. What are the three lines of code?

Many thanks,

Matt

Hi Matt,

Sorry for the late reply. Documents are created with the assigned doctype, after that it is not possible to change that, so it will not changed the doctype at the specific path.

Dynamic location can be achieved with the following class, change e.Items["location"] to the field you use in your datasource.

    public class MoveDocumentEvent : ApplicationBase
    {
        public MoveDocumentEvent()
        {
            ContentImport.RecordImported += new ContentImport.RecordImportedEventHandler(ContentImport_RecordImported);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Moves the library to the correct section.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender">The source of the event.</param>
        /// <param name="e">The <see cref="CMSImport.Extensions.Import.RecordImportedEventArgs"/> instance containing the event data.</param>
        void ContentImport_RecordImported(object sender, RecordImportedEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.ImportAction != ImportActions.Skip && e.Items.ContainsKey("location"))
            {
                Document doc = sender as Document;
                if (doc != null)
                {
                    doc.Move((int)e.Items["location"]);
                }
            }
        }
    }

Hope this helps,

Richard

Hi Richard,

Thanks for that, If I've undestood that correctly it would allow for restructuring a site based on an import file which is a very powerful feature, but is beyond what I need. Sorry if I've not explained the requirement clearly. I think it should be straight forward.

What I need is quite simple...

• I don't want to move any documents
• I don't want to change any doctypes
• I want to find the a record based on a column in the CSV file that holds it's relative Url whatever doctype it might be
• Having found the record I would like to import a value from another column into a field.

The reason for my question is that the interface requires

1. A start node (Which I guess could be the root) and 
2. A doctype (but I don't want to be limited to just one)

Sorry if I've not explained it clearly

Thanks, Matt

Ah ok,

So you can still add a static mapping based on the dropdownlist and when a record in your database matches that datatype you will import it, otherwise you skip it?

Sorry if I ask stupid questions.

Thanks Richard, 

I appreciate your help. I'll have a look at that later and see how that works.

Matt

Hi Matthew,

Just a check up did it work for you?

Thanks,

Richard

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