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From: Greg J. <gr...@ja...> - 2003-04-15 02:53:36
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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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Greg Jones Jacus - SoftwareWorks http://www.jacus.com.au/ |