[opencms-dev] Merge new database into existing one

[Georgi Naplatanov]

Hello, Ronen.

It's an interesting question.

In case it is possible in this scenario it will be nice to separate
content (content manager's work) and portal (developer's work) in
separate modules.

When developer delivers new portal version, the content manager should
export content module from the old installation and import it on the new
one.

Best regards
Georgi

Ronen Naor wrote:
> 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. 
> 
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> 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
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> 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:
>> 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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