Tools and Extensions for collective.transmogrifier

This code was put together to support the talk by Matt Hamilton and Matt Sital-Singh at the 2012 Plone Conference:

Content migration with transmogrifier: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

This is a work-in-progress egg that provides some example code and utilities for using collective.transmogrifier in large-scale plone sites. Comments, questions, suggestions and forks welcome.

Some familiarity with using collective.transmogrifier is recommended.

These links may help:

Transmogrifier Intro, Lennart Regebro, PloneConf 2009

Quintagroup help/documentation

No releases yet - so you may want to set up mr.developer to integrate this into your buildout.

[buildout]
...
eggs = netsight.transmogrifier

[sources]
netsight.transmogrifier = git git://github.com/netsight/netsight.transmogrifier.git

This egg is designed to run on both the source plone site and the target plone site.

The egg register two browser views - one for exporting (from the source site) and one for importing (into the target site).

http://localhost:8001/plonesite/@@netsight_do_export?path=/path/to/content

This export view will use the catalog to find content at /path/to/content and run it through the export pipeline. Content is exported to XML in /home/zope/transmogrifer_export/

http://localhost:8001/plonesite/@@netsight_do_import

This view will list the available exports from /home/zope/transmogrifier_export and allow you to select one of them to run through the import pipeline.