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kentico-lancetek - 1/14/2010 6:45:14 AM

How to import users and products

Hi,
I'm evaluating Kentico. I can't find any information on how to import users and products from other sources; we have existing sites that we'd possibly like to migrate to Kentico, so is there a facility to import the data from the old site into Kentico? Or are we just going to have to do the manual process of migrating data via SQL server?

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kentico_helenag - 1/14/2010 8:16:21 AM

RE:How to import users and products

Hello,

you could develop a process which could read your source and insert data by API to our system. We have a knowledge base article about similar importing products. Please see here: http://devnet.kentico.com/Knowledge-Base/E-commerce/Products-import-from-external-source.aspx for more details.

The users could be authenticated from the external source by custom handler – please see here: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/security_handler.htm

or you could create users by API again. Please see here: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/managing_users.htm for the sample code of user creation by API.

Best regards,
Helena Grulichova

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