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Import Pages from other Kentico site

Importing pages

  1. Open "Scrum Alliance" module.
  2. In section "REST destination endpoint" authenticate destination REST service (current website). Select user, enter password and click "Authenticate".
  3. After successfull authentication "Destination content" section will appear. Under this section select parent node for imported documents. Click "Select" to open path selector popup.
  4. In popup select document, which will be a parent for imported documents. Click "Select".
  5. In section "REST source endpoint" authenticate source REST service (website from where you want to import documents)
    1. Source server - URL, with http(s):// to kentico site
    2. Source user name - Username in source server.
    3. Source password - Password for entered user name.
  6. Click "Authenticate". You'll see new section called "Source content". It consists with two parts. First is optional and let you narrow pages for specified page type. Second is a tree of pages from source server.
  7. In field "Select source classes" by default all page types are selected. You have to select at last one page type, otherwise nothing will be imported.
  8. When you click on page in content tree it will be selected to import. All children of selected page will be imported. Selected node will expand so you can traverse through tree of pages to select part of tree that you want to copy.
  9. After you select source and destination node you will see "Results" section, which is the final section. You can see here summary of what you selected previously. If you want you can name your import to identify it easier in Imports report. Click "Import" and confirm 
  10. You'll see report of all pages that has been imported. And details  about the import. Most important columns are You don't have to copy this information. Report is saved for reviews and available to see on other Module tab.
    1. Status - Indicates if import of this page was successful.
    2. Matching fields - List of fields that has been mapped. 
    3. Missing source fields - Fields of document type that exists on destination server (current site) but doesn't exists on source server.
      Missing destination fields - Fields that exists on source server but doesn't on current website.
    4. Reference fields - Fields of type "Media library" or "User reference". Their values will be copied, but they will point to not existed objects. Reference objects are not copied.

Reviewing Imports

To see import click tab "Imports Log" in "Scrum Alliance" module. You can filter imports by its name, selected destination or source node.

Details of import are available in tab "Imported Pages Log". You can use filters to see pages that you're interested. For example you can filter by Import id, copied from "Import Log" page and "Reference Fields" set to "Is not empty" to see imported document that contains reference type fields that you probably want to change. You can use link in column "Destination page" to go to editing document page directly.

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