Import / export .zexp a knotes weblog across portals

24-March-2006

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Further to our report that largish-scale plone-wise copying and pasting worked for knotes weblog content, we've just succceeded in exporting a knotes weblog from one Plone portal and importing it into another.

In a post on Monday I noted that it now seems to "just work" when you copy and paste knotes content within a Plone site.

We moved a number of blogs and a few indexFolders full of blogs (and nested folders full of blogs, etc), and merged three blogs into one. All of this "just worked" using copy and paste TTP (through-the-Plone interface). We encountered and repaired two small issues.

KNotations | A case study of medium-scale CMF-wise copy and paste to merge and move knotes weblogs - it just works!

Yesterday we had another fast-action-request to move a year-old knotes weblog from one portal to another. You cannot use TTP copying and pasting between portals (note that by TTP or CMF-wise copying/pasting we mean through the Plone interface - by going into folder_contents view on enclosing folders while in ordinary website view). To copy content between portals it is necessary to go into the ZMI (Zope Management Interface) view and either use ZMI copying and pasting or export and re-import the weblog. We had run into problems with these advanced actions before, and have not tested them in a long time, but thought we'd give it a go.

It just worked. Exporting to a .zexp file from one portal and importing that into another worked fine. Caveats: the weblog was small and had no comments, just blog entries; and we made sure that there were corresponding users in the target portal and imported with the 'save existing ownership information' option.

This is good news for busy site administrators. It means that you should be able to let uysers create weblogs wherever they like, safe in the knowledge that you can move them later, even onto different servers and portals. We are eager to have some help testing advanced admin actions like this - please let us know if you can help.


Mike Malloch; 24-March-2006 19:40:43; forum (0) help

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