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

[thomas.heute@jboss.com]

"Antoine_h" wrote : 
  | 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.
  | 

Agreed

anonymous wrote : 
  | 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.
  | 

True, the only way as of today is to dump and import the database itself. This is not convenient. JBoss ON would be the good place to copy over the CMS data from one machine to the other.

anonymous wrote : 
  | 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 think that the export feature was mostly thought as a way to get part of a website for offline reading.
I agree that there are multiple ways to achieve want you legitimately want.

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

No firm plan yet since days are only 24h long ;)
I will add the Jira tasks about this thread once i get the time and when everything will be sorted out.

anonymous wrote : 
  | May be there are tools related to JackRabbit doing this ?
  | 

They made an export tool as part of the Google Summer Of Code, i don't know the status

anonymous wrote : 
  | 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.
  | 

Contributions are welcome ;)

anonymous wrote : 
  | Thanks for this great portal !
  | 

Thanks for the feeedbback !

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