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jacques.ghazalian@telus.com - 7/23/2008 8:41:40 AM

Importing content

Hi all,

I am trying to figure how automate the import process for contents, let's say xml files. Even better; how to import a whole site? I have visited this link:

http://www.kentico.com/docs/devguide/index.html?importing_a_site.htm

for tips but it seems like this only works with site “Exported” with Kentico CMS.

I am migrating my site to Kentico CMS but do not want to enter all the content manually on a site that contains 100's of pages and articles. At least trying to minimize this gruesome process :-). Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

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kentico_helenag - 7/23/2008 11:58:13 AM

RE:Importing content

Hi,

You are right with the importing site - this works only for the exports from the Kentico CMS.

Unfortunately, importing of existing web pages is not supported. You could eventually try to use our API to automate this process. Please see http://www.kentico.com/docs/devguide/api_overview.htm and related topics in this section for more details.

You may also use file import feature to import large amount of files (attachments). Please see http://kentico.com/docs/devguide/file_import.htm
for more details.

Best regards,
Helena Grulichova


Member	jacques.ghazalian@telus.com - 7/24/2008 7:53:45 AM RE:Importing content Hi Helena, Thank you very much for your help. I will surely check them out. Best Regards

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smita.singh-ssp-uk - 1/14/2009 2:59:18 AM

RE:Importing content

Hi ,

Could you please tell me specifically which API can be used to import the existing ASP.net site in Kentico CMS.I could not find it in the
link - http://www.kentico.com/docs/devguide/api_overview.htm.

And also whether importing the existing site would automatically register each aspx page of the existing site as given in the link -
http://www.kentico.com/docs/devguide/index.html?importing_a_site.htm.

I have got some 200 pages in my site.so if you could provide the required information it will be a great help.

Regards
Smita

Kentico Support

kentico_jurajo - 1/14/2009 3:55:15 AM

RE:Importing content

Hi,

You want to use the existing as a page templates for further use or these are already developed aspx pages?
If you want to use already developed pages, they could be present just physically in the web site folder.

If you want to use them as a page templates, you need to create custom script for it (using e.g. PageTemplateInfo class from our API).

Here you can find our API documentation - www.kentico.com/downloads/kenticocms_api.zip

Best Regards,
Juraj Ondrus