I need to export the roles, rights-groups and users from an mcms site
to some reasonable format.
>From the mcms faq, I can see that I cannot access the users
programmatically.
I'm currently exprimenting with the option of generating an sdo-file in
site manager, and extracting my information from the xml-files in this
sdo. Is this a good approach or can I do better? It would be nice to
make a tool for this task which does not involve sitemanager and a
decompression-tool..

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Hi Nikolaj,

that can be done using SiteDeployment API:

Dim pCmsDeployExport
Dim shell
Dim pExportOptions

Set pCmsUserGroupBackupRestore =
CreateObject("CmsDeployServer.CmsUserGroupBackupRestore.1")

pCmsUserGroupBackupRestore.AuthenticateAsCurrentUser()

If ( Err.Number <> 0 ) Then
Call MsgBox(Err.Description, vbCritical, "Backup/Restore PROBLEM")
Set pCmsUserGroupBackupRestore = Nothing
else

strPackageFileName = "d:\export\export-users.sdo"
strReportUrl = pCmsUserGroupBackupRestore.Backup("strPackageFileName")

' Display the report in the Web browser.
Set shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run "http://localhost" & strReportUrl, 7
WScript.Echo "Export complete."

end if

Then import the SDO on the destination server using SiteManager or site
deployment script.

Cheers,
Stefan

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"nikolaj" <nik@email.dk> wrote in message
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>I need to export the roles, rights-groups and users from an mcms site
> to some reasonable format. 
> programmatically.
> I'm currently exprimenting with the option of generating an sdo-file in
> site manager, and extracting my information from the xml-files in this
> sdo. Is this a good approach or can I do better? It would be nice to
> make a tool for this task which does not involve sitemanager and a
> decompression-tool..
>

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Thanks.

Where can I get the Site deployment API?

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Hi Nikolaj,

that API is part of the product.
Check the reference section of the MCMS documentation.
It contains a complete description including sample scripts.

Cheers,
Stefan

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"nikolaj" <nik@email.dk> wrote in message
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> Thanks.
>
> Where can I get the Site deployment API?
>

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