Exporting and Importing Layout Sets 

Use

You can use the functions Export and Import to move existing layout sets, and the configuration data of all objects used by layout sets, between portals.

For example, you can create a layout set in a test system and then transfer it to a productive system.

 

Exporting a Layout Set

If you choose Export, the system generates an archive file that contains the configuration data for all objects contained in the layout set in question (for example, the data for its collection renderer settings, command groups, and layout controllers). If a configuration object references other configuration objects, this data is also entered into the archive file.

 

The archive file only contains the configuration data for objects. The corresponding Java classes are not exported. If you have entered Java classes that are not contained in the standard delivery into the configuration of objects, you have to move these manual between portals.

 

We recommend that you create a copy of the layout set that you want to export before carrying out the export. Save this copy under a meaningful name (see Advanced Copying of Layout Sets). If you use configuration objects with identical names in the configuration of different portals, conflicts may occur during the import. In some cases, configuration objects with identical names may be overwritten.

 

       1.      Call up the overview of existing layout sets in the system. Choose Content Management ® User Interface ® Settings ® Layout Set to do this.

       2.      Select the layout set that you want to export, and choose Export. Choose OK.

       3.      Choose the link to the exported file and save it in the desired repository.

 

Importing a Layout Set

As soon as the system has generated the archive file you can transport the file to any portal and integrate the layout set there using Import.

 

If configuration objects with identical names to those in the archive file are already used in the system, these configuration objects are overwritten by those in the archive file.

 

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       1.      If you are using your own JAVA classes in the layout set (ones that are not included in the standard delivery), copy them manually from one portal server to the corresponding directories on the other portal server.

       2.      Call up the overview of existing layout sets in the system. Choose Content Management ® User Interface ® Settings ® Layout Set to do this.

       3.      Choose Import.

       4.      Select the file that contains the layout set to be imported.

       5.      Choose Upload.