Dumb Question: How do you export content out of the repo?

By chb03c - JCRDev | Posted on 2010-01-15 07:16

Work on a migration project from Communique 3.5 to Communique 5.2. The major problem is we are trying to figure out how to capture all the content in 3.5 so we can load them into 5.2. We are currently using CQDE 4 for CQ 3.5 and we are using CQDE 5 for 5.2. Any help would be much appreciated.

We have already used the export feature under the resources tab to get all the templates we really need help with exporting all the images and content.

Previous comments on this post

By  thaneshk - JCRLead | Posted on 2010-01-15 09:09

What happens when you use the export feature for content/images?

By  chb03c - JCRDev | Posted on 2010-01-15 11:29

That feature is not availible or at least I do not know about it in CQDE 4. If you know how to export the content/images I would be curious to know how.

By  jkerger - JCRDev | Posted on 2010-01-22 13:27

The issue is that in 3.5 the content is stored in a ContentBus (predecessor to CRX).  This storage mechanism is very close to the CRX in structure, but how the files are persisted is completely different.  The suggested process would be to upgrade from 3.5 to 4.x and then from 4.x to 5.2.  This scenario requires a lot of mapping and will break any code that you developed in 3.5 due to the API change from 4.x to 5.x.  However, once the content is in a 5.x instance it is much easier to potentially do some mapping either externally in XML or within the JCR itself to re-work the content to use the new components.  The difference in 4.x to 5.x is the structure of the page data and the medialib even though it is in the CRX, they are different in 5.x and 4.x.  If you do not have installations for 4.x to do a migration, I suggest you open up a DayCare ticket to request the installations and also request help during this process.  I suggest you try to do this double migration approach because there are many details in the mapping that the product teams knows about that you will miss if you simply export from 3.5 in some XML fashion and then import into 5.x.