Tools->Export = empty file? :(

Squiz Matrix Support
1

Just tried exporting from one of our sites… file gets written on the server in the folder I expected… but it has no content. No errors reported… it's just empty.


I seem to recall this was a problem on older MSM releases, can anyone confirm is this was ever fixed? :blink:



We're on 3.28.6. Thanks. :slight_smile:

2

Hi,


It seems to certainly be working on my 3.28.6/7 and Development environment. Exporting everything correctly. Just wondering what is content under the site you would be specifying as root node? And just to double check that we are on same track, we are using "Export Files" tool here, aren't we ?



cheers

3

[quote]
Hi,



It seems to certainly be working on my 3.28.6/7 and Development environment. Exporting everything correctly. Just wondering what is content under the site you would be specifying as root node? And just to double check that we are on same track, we are using "Export Files" tool here, aren't we ?



cheers

[/quote]





Hi. It's a very standard, boring, small site… entirely Standard Page assets. I'm using "Export Files" under "System Tools". On our older install of Matrix this just never worked - I developed my own scripts to migrate assets over from one Matrix instance to another. It was time consuming and tedious but it worked… I was just hoping that in later versions there was a way of exporting a whole site.

4

Export file tool can't export Matrix standard pages, it only exports file assets.




Probably you should be looking at the scripts in script folder like those ones:



scripts/import/export_to_xml.php

scripts/import/import_from_xml.php

5

[quote]
Export file tool can't export Matrix standard pages, it only exports file assets.





Probably you should be looking at the scripts in script folder like those ones:



scripts/import/export_to_xml.php

scripts/import/import_from_xml.php

[/quote]



Thanks Edison, yeah I sorta came to that conclusion! I am just surprised there's no means of exporting page content through the backend. I can understand it would be pretty tricky with things like asset listers and more complex asset types, but to be able to "back up" page content from a whole site would be pretty handy. Maybe I've missed something here and it's been there all along?? Is there some really obvious way of doing this? :blink: