Export - Import (Production to Staging)

Hi,

I'm assuming that by "push" you mean synchronizing content via Kentico Staging module? If so, there is no need to import-export manually, you can connect your Production to Staging and send content and templates back to Staging. Have a look at this article.

After connecting the bi-directional staging from production, would I just sync the master page subtree?

Yes, this should work ideally. However, I'd do it section by section, rather than everything in one go.

Also, keep in mind that this sync will not delete the pages that were on UAT but weren't on production, so you would need to delete those manually.

What about exporting from production and importing into staging? Is that an option? If so, when exporting, do I choose entire site, or global objects only?

With export, you cannot select manually content items to sync, there is only one option - sync everything, and if there will be an error during the process of import it will terminate the process and it would be hard to tell what was or wasn't imported.

With content sync tasks there is never gonna be a one-click magic button that will do everything nicely for you. That's why I believe it is easier to do it via Staging rather than an import. With Staging you can sync section by section, and therefore deal with sync errors on a smaller chunk of objects, e.g. page types first, then web parts, then content, then something else depending on what are you using within the system.

Got it. Thanks.