Import media libraries

Hi Leo,

You can migrate that by importing media objects from version 10 to version 13 using export and import object in site. After successfully import of your media objects into Kentico 13 admin, you able to see the physical media folder under cms folder directory and from there you just have to copy paste the complete media folder into your mvc project folder directory.

Thanks & Regards Nikhila

Just a note - when exporting/importing do not forget to check the option "export/import physical files".

Hi guys,

There is one more thing to keep in mind when migrating a lot of media library files, and it's request limits. If you have lots of media files, they will be packed in a large zip archive. This process takes some time and you may start seeing request timeout errors. Make sure you've enlarged request timeouts and response size variables in your web.config correspondingly.

Can you associate a product in K13 commerce with an image in the media library? And thus can you associate one product image file with two different products?

Hello Nikhila!

I understand the concept, but you mentioned 'using export and import object in site'.

How can I get to this application ? Is it from the Administration site or from the Kentico Xperience Import Toolkit 13 ?

If it's from Kentico Import Toolkit 13, when I get to the 'Please, select the datasource', what should I select to bring the Media Library ?

Thank you.

Hello,

I was able to export/import the files and after that, I copied the files to the target folder. It looked fine at first but then I noticed that there is an orange icon besides each file with the tooltip "Import". Just when I click this icon, the file becomes available (and I guess it will be in the database).

My question is: Is there a way to do this automatically for every file because we have lots of files to be imported ?

Also, what too is this Kentico Experience Import Toolkit 13 ? Would this tool do a better job than the import/export website tool from the adm Kentico website ?

Thank you very much guys!

Leonardo

Hello, Juraj !

When importing using the Import Toolkit I see that there are two main tables: Media_Files and Media_Library. Do you know the difference between them ?

Thank you !

Leonardo

Hi Leo,
Yes, one table holds the records for the media files and the second one holds the information about given media library. Files are split across the media library objects.