[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: WANTED: Input from administrators & developers

[Antoine_h]

I hope this is part of monitoring and my post is proper for this topic.

It's about managing the content more than the instance itself, but as we may use the content to structure and build a portal, the frontier between content and jboss portal instance is difficult to fix.

The feature wished : To be able to import and export all, or part of, the JCR folders and files from dev instance to QA instance, then from QA to prod instance.
This to be able to deploy the portal to prod easily but also in a reliable way.
This is a "small" feature, but would be very usefull for provisionning.

in 2.4, when trying to export and import :
 - the Title and Description are not exported in the zip file. 
 - the files in multiple languages (en, fr, sp...) can be exported only in one language one at a time. Need to replay the export and import for each languages.

so it is very complicated to move part of the JCR from dev to prod. And Title and Description can't be used.... as they are lost on the way.

Practical short term ideas/proposition to enhance the export feature :
 - Title and Description : Could this be done with a xml descriptor of the archive export file ? 
 - multiple languages in one archive file : fork the folders a the root level of the exported folders, one for each languages ? Or fork the archive file, one for each language ?
 - All this with options to ask the export with these "add on" in the archive, or just the plain files as it is now ?

I have seen no Jira on this ? 
is it not planed yet ?
shall I post one ?

May be there are tools related to JackRabbit doing this ?

To be able to deploy the portal in a safe, reliable way, I am planning to develop something for when my project is ready to go to prod.

Thanks for this great portal !


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