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Is it possible or could it be possible to import an entire content tree (umbraco left panel)? Is it an XML file? If so is the format of the tree available? If i could recreate the tree offline in another program how could it be imported?
Any thoughts...
GaryB
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Can you specify what you mean? I have done a rebuild in a Win-Form of the ContentTree. Does this help you? Thomas
• 2007/2008 MVP • www.thoehler.com • Bad Homburg, Germany
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You could use the package format? I haven't done this myself but the webwizard creates a structure of nodes. Jesper
webbureau jesper.com doing webdesign / development / umbraco implementations / 2007&2008 MVP
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I will try to explain.
I would like to run a webform (possibly through Umbraco)that basically asks some questions from the user and they make decisions by selecting preset choices from dropdown boxes or fill in the blanks. What this does in the backend is create a site map of how the site will need to be laid out starting from the root and including all sub categories and documents. I would then like to go to Umbraco and import the resulting site tree and have it create the content tree from this site map or by some other backend method. All it would do is prebuild all of the documents without any content but sets up the navigation and gives a content author a TODO list.
Our business is creating technical documentation and we have done so many of them that we can break down the the requirements and creation of these systems into some questions on a page. If we document a complex machine for example we ask for Make/Model, Type (machine purpose), Controller Type, etc. In the end we know what are the most important topics to document based on previous systems and we build the site map and fill in the blanks.
It would be great to determine quotes for customers among other time saving things.
How's that?
GaryB
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That's a good point. I didn't think of that. Is there documentation on the packager?
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or the package format? or do you just open it and figure it out?
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The package format is xml so the nodes more or less document themselves, download the website wizard and the rss package to see how you can create installations, the rss package also shows how you can run extra code after the install like a sql script.
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Will do.
Do you know where the latest RSS package is. i don't want to download the wrong version of anything again. I'm using Umbraco 2.1.4
Thanks,
GaryB
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