Andy & Eric,
The Import/Export features I've been using -- described on the uPortal
wiki
(http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/uP2+XML+Import+Export+with+Cernunnos)
and covered by a new JIRA (http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/UP-1834)
-- would also cover this need.
They use the tried-and-true pubchan file format to import channels, but
they don't rely on ordering or specifying database IDs.
These tools also allow you to manage the following other entity types in
XML documents, also without database IDs:
- Groups
- Memberships
- Users
- Layouts
- Permissions
Instead of using database IDs, these tools link up new entities with
their dependencies as they are imported. For example, entities will be
processed in the following order on an 'initportal':
- Template Users
- Users
- Groups
- Channels
- Memberships
- Permissions
- Layouts
Thereafter, any entity may be imported (in any order) so long as the
things it relies on are already present.
These tools also export to the same format they support on import. Just
type
> ant -f import-export.xml export -Ddir=mystuff -Dtype=all
To export your whole portal universe to a directory called stuff/.
These tools can be retrofitted (w/o modifying existing files) to earlier
versions of uPortal (2.5 & up). Put them into your 2.5.3 portal, export
all your users, layouts, channels, groups, and permissions, then import
them into a 2.6.
These tools are already in use at CSU Chico & University of Colorado System.
Some notable list members -- e.g. Chris Doyle of JHU & Faisan from
Rutgers -- have given them a spin as well. Chris provided valuable
feedback over a period of weeks, and (in particular) identified a
serious issue using these tools and MS SQL Server. Andrew Petro, Adam
Rybicki, and myself worked out a plan to resolve the issue, but it
hasn't been implemented or integrated with the existing technology.
drew wills
Eric Dalquist wrote:
Andy,
A quick peak at the 2.6.1 RC2 code shows a <channelId> element in each
of the chanpub files in use. The data.xml for 2.6.1 has no UP_CHANNELS
table declared and the channel IDs come from that <channelId> element.
Is this what you need? It looks like this change happened for
http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/UP-1413 which made it into 2.6.0
-Eric
Andy Gherna wrote:
Hello all,
An issue was recently submitted to JIRA
(http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/UP-1842). To summarize the
issue, in the past we have experienced some varied behavior when
publishing channels, particularly when the portal was initialized.
Channels would appear in unexpected places and we would have to very
carefully edit the data.xml file to get everything right. Sometimes
it would work right on a Windows workstation but not a Mac or Unix and
vice versa.
We have submitted an enhancement that overcomes this behavior. In
particular, we have presented 2 options. The first was to sort the
channel files in a consistent way when deploying to make sure that
channel ids would match up with what we had in our data.xml. The
second was to modify the channelDefinition.dtd with a new (optional)
tag: CHANID. This would register a channel with the database with the
given ID (e.g. <CHANID>262</CHANID> could be included in the channel
publishing xml).
We have been using the first option for about a year and a half now
and the second since January. Both have been working fine for us.
We have posted diffs of all the source files that were changed with
the issue. I was hoping that even though we are at feature
completeness for 2.6.1 that this could be rolled in to 2.6.1. Thanks
for your consideration.
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Andy Gherna
CITES, University of Illinois
Senior Research Programmer
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