Microsoft Content Management Server - Importing SDO file deletes existing channels

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Importing SDO file deletes existing channels

Julian Mack

2006-08-21, 1:24 pm

Hi Stefan,

We did a new MCMS site on a dev machine. At one point we renamed the
top channel of the site.

There were several sites on the machine. I chose to export only one of
them, and the export report looked OK. (Assume the channel was called
/Channels/www.sitea.com)

When we imported www.sitea.com on another machine it put the content
into another, existing, channel which had similar content (let's call
it /Channels/www.siteb.com) and also deleted an existing site,
unrelated to the one we were trying to import.

Have you got any tips on troubleshooting this? It seems like rather
erratic behaviour. Why would it put content into the www.siteb.com
channel rather than creating a new channel for the www.sitea.com
content? Also, any idea why the third site was being deleted?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Julian

Mike

2006-08-22, 7:29 pm

Hi Julian,

I know that sdos created by SDAPI will delete postings and channels when the
sdo is imported. You need this functionality to keep two cms databases in
sych. Sorry, I do not know what would have cuased the problem with the
posting being pulled into the wrong channel.

Thanks,
Mike

"Julian Mack" wrote:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> We did a new MCMS site on a dev machine. At one point we renamed the
> top channel of the site.
>
> There were several sites on the machine. I chose to export only one of
> them, and the export report looked OK. (Assume the channel was called
> /Channels/www.sitea.com)
>
> When we imported www.sitea.com on another machine it put the content
> into another, existing, channel which had similar content (let's call
> it /Channels/www.siteb.com) and also deleted an existing site,
> unrelated to the one we were trying to import.
>
> Have you got any tips on troubleshooting this? It seems like rather
> erratic behaviour. Why would it put content into the www.siteb.com
> channel rather than creating a new channel for the www.sitea.com
> content? Also, any idea why the third site was being deleted?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Many thanks,
> Julian
>
>

Stefan [MSFT]

2006-08-23, 1:22 pm

Hi Julien,

sounds as if the two databases were the same earlier.
MCMS is importing based of GUIDs.
So just renaming a channel will not change the guid.
If you later import items from the other database it will modify the items
in the "unrelated" site - as it is not really unrelated.

Cheers,
Stefan

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"Julian Mack" <julian.mack@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1156180464.065552.111080@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
> Hi Stefan,
>
> We did a new MCMS site on a dev machine. At one point we renamed the
> top channel of the site.
>
> There were several sites on the machine. I chose to export only one of
> them, and the export report looked OK. (Assume the channel was called
> /Channels/www.sitea.com)
>
> When we imported www.sitea.com on another machine it put the content
> into another, existing, channel which had similar content (let's call
> it /Channels/www.siteb.com) and also deleted an existing site,
> unrelated to the one we were trying to import.
>
> Have you got any tips on troubleshooting this? It seems like rather
> erratic behaviour. Why would it put content into the www.siteb.com
> channel rather than creating a new channel for the www.sitea.com
> content? Also, any idea why the third site was being deleted?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Many thanks,
> Julian
>