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Export/import a space and its rules

lyth_o — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:12:55 GMT

Hello everyone,I'm new to Alfresco and I would like to export a space containing rules only. The export is done correctly and I can import the .acp after. The space and the rules are loaded but clicking on a rule displays an error message : java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: nodeRef is a mandatory

Re: Export/import a space and its rules

mitpatoliya — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:29:36 GMT

Yes that should be the case I guess.
Ideally whatever the setup required for the rule like custom script or any category like your case needs to be created explicitly on the new instance.

Re: Export/import a space and its rules

lyth_o — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:54:29 GMT

I do not understand then what's happening during the import of the rules. Why would not the rule understand the link to a category? The category hasn't moved or anything… If I say to a rule "link to category at this path" and the path does not change, why wouldn't an imported rule understand the path ?

If I have to create explicitely all these rules, then exporting and importing is useless for me. And it's infeasible to create all rules manually every time we want to deploy our application to production.

Isn't there a way by modifying some xml files for instance ?

Re: Export/import a space and its rules

lyth_o — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:29:02 GMT

For the ones who have the same problem, the answer may be the following :

Check the xml given by the export (unzip the .acp). Check noderef. If you have directly /cm:generalclassifiable/… , try putting /cm:categoryRoot before it. It solved my problem !

However, I would like to know why the export doesnt put the right path in the xml. Some ideas ?