Is there a method for migrating an existing website onto Matrix that doesn't involve hand-creating new assets and copying and pasting content?
did you try the HTML import tool?
Depends on size of the site and how it's configured. We've found each site has a different 'best way' of migrating into MYSource.
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did you try the HTML import tool?
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That sounds perfect for my needs. However, I have to admit that I have never come across this tool. Is it something I have to have added to my Matrix system? And is there anything else I need to set up so that I can use it.
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Depends on size of the site and how it's configured. We've found each site has a different 'best way' of migrating into MYSource.
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Our site is probably mid-sized (probably not a very helpful description). It has about 20 main pages with very few images. However, my biggest concern is that it has an online store, with an unknown number of items. Some way of automatically creating assets for these store items would be great, ideally also importing the necessary metadata. For uploading the thumbnails for these store items, I was intending to batch upload them as associated files for a dummy css asset, though I would be interested to know if there is a better way to batch upload images.
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Our site is probably mid-sized (probably not a very helpful description). It has about 20 main pages with very few images. However, my biggest concern is that it has an online store, with an unknown number of items. Some way of automatically creating assets for these store items would be great, ideally also importing the necessary metadata. For uploading the thumbnails for these store items, I was intending to batch upload them as associated files for a dummy css asset, though I would be interested to know if there is a better way to batch upload images.
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There are import scripts that might be useful to you. They take XML and will create assets with metadata if you want. Take a look at the import scripts chapter of the manuals: http://manuals.matrix.squizsuite.net/server-administrator/chapters/import-scripts
For uploading images in bulk, just use the bulk upload tool, click the tools icon on the top right of the admin, the choose bulk upload. Then, configure it so that you can just FTP all of the images to your server then import them into Matrix.
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There are import scripts that might be useful to you. They take XML and will create assets with metadata if you want. Take a look at the import scripts chapter of the manuals: http://manuals.matrix.squizsuite.net/server-administrator/chapters/import-scripts
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Thanks for the tip. As I understand it, these aren't accessible from the administration interface and to use them I will have to contact my server administrator.
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For uploading images in bulk, just use the bulk upload tool, click the tools icon on the top right of the admin, the choose bulk upload. Then, configure it so that you can just FTP all of the images to your server then import them into Matrix.
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I have had a look at that tool, but I get stuck pretty early on with the requirement to set the import directory. There doesn't appear to be a default import directory, so I take it I would have to get my server administrator to create a directory for me.
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Thanks for the tip. As I understand it, these aren't accessible from the administration interface and to use them I will have to contact my server administrator.
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Yes, this is correct, they are command line scripts. I do however believe that the newest version of Matrix has access from the _admin.
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I have had a look at that tool, but I get stuck pretty early on with the requirement to set the import directory. There doesn't appear to be a default import directory, so I take it I would have to get my server administrator to create a directory for me.
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Correct. You need to setup a folder on the server that has write access for the apache user. Then, that needs to be setup as the import directory. See the following links for additional help:
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Yes, this is correct, they are command line scripts. I do however believe that the newest version of Matrix has access from the _admin.
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Thanks for your help Nic. I'll look into this further.