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1/20/2016 2:50 PM
 
Robby Parker


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Hi. I am trying to figure out the best way to migrate data from my custom built system. Any help is very much appreciated. I am a new DNN (Evoq) customer. I have an existing website with a custom built CMS behind it. I need to migrate some legacy data from my custom built site over to my new DNN (Evoq) installation. Specifically, I have approx. 10,000 pages which exist in custom non-DNN Sql Server data schema. We think of these items as "documents". I know this won't be the case in the DNN schema. Our documents have various relationships with other items such as tags and categories.  Can anyone suggest a way to go about migrating this custom data into DNN?  Thank you.
 
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Unfortunately there isn't a really good, easy to use solution for this that I know of. 

Depending on the Content itself, it might be imported into DNN as Pages with Modules on them to fill in the content (content actually imported into the modules themselves, but the title and URL being defined by the page itself). It could also be imported into XML templates that DNN can "import" to create pages in an Instance of DNN. 

Neither of those two approaches are easy to do without a thorough understanding of DNN and lots of testing.

You might take a different approach, and import all the Content into a single module, which will provide those "documents" and a way to navigate through the documents. Something like the 2sxc Content module, in which you items become different "cotennttypes".

Is most of the content simply text/html, or are there images and PDF/DOCX files and such that need to be accounted for?

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