Thanks Stefan!  We decided to write a script using wget that crawls
the site and pulls the content within a given div id.  Thanks for all
of your suggestions.  If our script works, I'd be happy to share.

Tom Black

On Apr 14, 1:47 am, Stefan Buchali <[email protected]> wrote:
> The only "built-in" way to export content is to "export all instances"
> from the content class action menu (open "instances" in the tree, then
> you will find it in the action menu).
> This exports your pages on a content class base to XML files that can
> be opened with excel after a little bit of editing.
> German description see 
> here:http://www.sfebusiness.com/excel-export-aus-reddot/
> As every page will be exported as one XML file, you have to get them
> together into one file. Here the "cmd" command type *.xml >
> allinone.xml will help you. Then, make it a valid XML by deleting all
> XML declarations but the first and by adding a root element.
>
> If a content class based export (only content elements will be
> exported, any structure will get lost!) is not what you need, then I
> think you will have to add a XML project variant and publish your
> project this way.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
> On 11 Apr., 18:40, camdev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm not aware of any built-in tool to export directly from the rd
> > database however, you can still accomplish this via reddot's extended
> > list functionality.  Essentially, you create a page that renders a
> > table whose rows contain data from each page connected to a list
> > placeholder.  Export the table to excel by setting the content type to
> > application/vnd.ms-excel.  Another alternative is to code your output
> > as xml which can then be read by just about any application.
>
> > Cesar
>
> > On Apr 9, 5:07 pm, organica <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > We are in the process of re-writing our web content.  The orginal
> > > content was written directly into RedDot and now the cms is the keeper
> > > of the content.  Is there anyway to export the content to a file or DB
> > > that's readable by any Office application?
>
> > > I know that MySQL can export to an Excel file using phpMyAdmin very
> > > quickly.  Does the RD database have a similar tool to export the
> > > content to Excel or Access?
>
> > > Thanks,
>
> > > Tom
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