[opencms-dev] convert xmlpage to custom resource type

[Kyung Lee]

No.. I don't know what to do manually. The situation is this:
1. in OpenCms 5.0, the articles were of type "page". They have elements
and properties associated to them, and they are rendered with a
template.
2. After importing them into 6.0, they turned into type "xmlpage". I had
to do the "migrate from 5.0->6.0" thing (via the documentation) and was
able to get most of it working (more or less) with the new templates and
APIs.
3. Now, we want to implement the new form-style editing. As far as I
know, this can only be achieved via a custom resource type (is that
correct)? Since that's the case, I have created the custom resource type
and have that kinda/sorta working (tweaking/fixing as we speak).
4. Now, when I do "create new" and choose my resource type, I can enter
an article and it kinda/sorta looks like what I want. When I try to
change the resource type of previously created pages to my resource
type, I get errors and it doesn't output all the elements/properties. 

So, from that, I was thinking the way to approach it is to somehow
export the data from the old xmlpage type and into my new custom type. I
don't know if this is the right route or not, just what seemed logical
to me.

I hope this answers your questions.
Thanks.



On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 16:56 +0200, Thomas Maerz wrote:
> Kyung Lee <kyung.lee at marquiswhoswho.com> writes:
> 
> > I know how to make a custom resource type (which is what I think you are
> > pointing me to via the documentation). It's how to extract or
> > export/import the data from the xmlpage type to my new type. When I try
> > to click and do "change resource type" to the new type, it doesn't map
> > correctly, and besides, I have thousands of articles to do this to, so,
> > manually doing it is not a good option.
> 
> So you know what you'd to do manually?
> So your problem is to automate the process?
> 
> Did you compare the "controlcodes" of the resource types?
> 
> Can't you create new resource types with the content of the xmlpages?
> 
> 
> Did you already start writing the code to accomplish this?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 
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