[opencms-dev] Merge new database into existing one

[Ronen Naor]

Hi,
What I mean is not upgrading the OpenCms version but stay with the same
version and to change existing database. I will explain in more details:

In my organization there is two kind of roles: 
 * the developer which prepare base installation of the portal with
basic content
 * the content manager which add extra content to what he received from
the developer

Now, after the portal is live and being updated with new content from
the content manager all the time, the developer decided to change some
of the initial content he delivered. At this point the developer needs
to take care he does not change files that the content manager already
changed and by doing so destroy its work.

My question was what is the recommended technique for doing that,
provided there is such a technique?

Thanks,
Ronen. 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Pomegranate
Software- Arash Kaffamanesh
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 12:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Merge new database into existing one

Hi Ronen,

what do you mean with base version? a major new release of OpenCms, for 
instance the upcoming OpenCms 7.5 / 8.x in future which shall be 
migrated to it from 7.0.5?
In this case you can easily export the existing data from the previous 
version and import it to the new instance of the latest version and it 
works even if the templates or data structure changes.

Best,
Arash

Ronen Naor wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Is there some kind of technique to merge existing OpenCms database 
> portal with a new base version?
>
>  
>
> My use case is that we provide base version of a portal and content 
> managers add more content through time. Then later on, we will have a 
> new base version we would like the portal to be upgraded but without 
> losing the content they already inserted.
>
>  
>
> If it helps we can assume that the new content will always be under 
> specific location, but I guess templates can change as well.
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ronen.
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