Rank: Enthusiast
Joined: 3/14/2007
Posts: 20
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Hi
This is my first post and hopefully not my last
I have a site going live with Umbraco this week and need to import some external data.
The data has been collected over the last 3 months into an ms-access database so exporting it into a number of formats isn't an issue. But how do I import into Umbraco? The data follows a datatype I've already created.
Any help here would be hugely apperciated (otherwise I've got to enter 800 records this weekend )
Thanks in advance
Andy
PS sorry for second post - I missed the subject both on my first post!!
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Rank: Aficionado
Joined: 7/19/2006
Posts: 174
Location: NYC
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There are 2 popular ways to do this: You can write your own library like this: http://blockquote.be/2006/08/09/extending-umbraco-with-a-library/OR (this may be easier) use a .aspx page to get your XML and then parse it with xslt like this: http://kasperb.dk/2006/6/26/display_your_flickr_images_on_your_umbraco_driven_website.aspxWith the 2nd method, you can do whatever database queries you want, dump out the data in XML format, and you're ready to go. - Mark
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