[Belts-developer] Bootstrapping and Exporting BELTS Entities

[Greg J. <gr...@ja...>]

Hi everyone,

I have made a couple of updates to BELTS to allow us to export existing
BELTS entities and import new entities into a new installation. This
will help particularly when we want to change the database used by BELTS
to be Hypersonic SQL, rather than PostgreSQL.

To access these facilities, build BELTS using the latest code (either
the 1.0 branch, or HEAD), then:

1. Login to BELTS as the user 'bootstrap' with the password 'bootstrap'.
2. Select the "Bootstrap Data" link and then "Export" to export your
data.
3. If you want to import new data, "Browse" for an XML file and then
press the "Import" button.

As a test, try exporting your data and then re-import it into a clean
installation.

This method currently does nothing with resources, except maintain
resource links in lesson items. The export mechanism will be improved as
version 1.1 development progresses and will hopefully be able to export
complete BELTS deployments by the time 1.1 is released.

After some more testing, we will make another Version 1.0 release to
give this capability to existing users.

As always, please report any problems to the BELTS Developer mailing
list.

Cheers,
Greg

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Greg Jones 
Jacus - SoftwareWorks
http://www.jacus.com.au/