Copying a data list to another Share site?

jynnyd — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:02:16 GMT

Hello,I hope that I'm not repeating a question here but after hours of research I haven't found the answer to my question so I'm posting it here!We would like to copy a data list to another Share site, or copy lists items to another data list but this doesn't seem to be working.Could you tell me if

Re: Copying a data list to another Share site?

vamirr — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:42:02 GMT

You could do this with the import/export tools in Alfresco explorer.

Or

Here's a script that does it as well. Put this in Company Home > Data Dictionary > Scripts

(From Explorer) Edit the source and destination site names and do a run action > execute script > copySiteAssets.js

It'll copy additional site assets like document library by editing the asset name variable appropriately.

copySiteAssets.js:

function processCommand(){
   try{
   logger.log("/*—————————————————————————–copySiteAssets.js");


   var sourceSiteShortName = "test-site-1";
   var destSiteShortName = "test-site-2";
   var assetName = "dataLists"

   var sourceSiteNode = siteService.getSite(sourceSiteShortName).node;   
   var destSiteNode = siteService.getSite(destSiteShortName).node;

   var sourceAssetNode;
   var destAssetNode;


   if(!(sourceSiteNode && destSiteNode)){
      logger.log("Source or Destination Site Nodes Not Found");
      return;
   }

   //Look to see if the asset exists under the source node…
   for(var i = 0; i < sourceSiteNode.children.length; i++){
      currentNode = sourceSiteNode.children[i];

      if(currentNode.properties["cm:name"] == assetName)
         sourceAssetNode= currentNode;
   }
   
   if(!sourceAssetNode){
      logger.log("Asset: " + assetName + " not found under source Site: " + sourceSiteShortName );
   }

   //Look to see if asset exists under the destination node
   for(var i = 0; i < destSiteNode.children.length; i++){
      currentNode =  destSiteNode.children[i];

      if(currentNode.properties["cm:name"] == assetName)
          destAssetNode= currentNode;
   }   
   
   //If asset doesn't exist already, create it.
   if(!destAssetNode){
      destSiteNode.createFolder(assetName);
   }

   //For each node under the asset's main folder, copy that to the destination.
      for(var i = 0; i < sourceAssetNode.children.length; i++){
      asset = sourceAssetNode.children[i];
      asset.copy(destAssetNode, true);
   }
   logger.log("/*—————————————————————————–copySiteAssets.js");
   }catch(err){logger.log(err);}
}

processCommand();‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Note that I haven't tested this on anything other than Enterprise 3.4.4. 4.0 doesn't create all site asset folders immediately on site creation, that could cause a problem if you're using Alfresco 4. Just make sure you have the datalist exposed in the site before running the script.

Re: Copying a data list to another Share site?

jynnyd — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:01:00 GMT

Thank you Vamirr!

This was exacly the answer I was looking for!

Have a nice day!

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