Import brochure pages from another snapshot

[eighteentee]

Hi all,

I have had a v8 store in development for a little while for a customer who is using v7. Basically, he's carried on using v7 updating and changing stuff while I have been busy doing the magic on a v8 store. Here's the problem; I was working off a snapshot of his v7 site that I upgraded and made nice and now I need to get the changed, most up-to-date snapshot of his v7 store. The v8 store has a rake of nice new brochure sections which the v7 store doesn't. So how do I get the changed products ect out of the latest v7 snapshot into my working v8 without overwriting all the juicy brochure sections and colour schemes etc? Might be a simple one but I've been scratching my head over this one..

[leehack]

Nope you're right Phil, you are stuffed and had you been in touch with the forum a bit sooner, you'd have realised that putting new fragments into V8 was madness during the build stage.

The design snapshot does not work, hierachical exports have a bug, basically you create the new V8 store and when client is happy with it, you get a new snapshot off them and reapply it all again. I'm just in the middle of this doing this at the moment.

[eighteentee]

LOL!

Curse my own stupidity!

Here's me thinking that this would be a simpe one. How about I manually battle through the MDB and try to extract the brochure stuff that way and graft it into my new v8 site?

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[pinbrook]

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and before you ask a question

[leehack]

Phil, you may get away with a hierarchical, you can add to the database, it's a case of doing whatever works for you. Sometimes a hierarchical works, but problematic with fragments IME.

Personally if i was in your situation, i would load up the test site and then when i have rebuilt the store just copy paste off the live test site OR, open up both versions of actinic and put the brochure pages into V7, if you have a 2 screen setup, you can copy paste easily. Once done, then upgrade it.

[eighteentee]

Leehack: Agreed - I'm all for an easier life and don't need to remove any more of my own hair for now.

Pinbrook: You're right but having been awake from 2.45am this morning feeding my newborn I didn't even think about it - currently functioning on a cocktail of very strong coffee and Red Bull.