[SOLVED] Tridion Content Port between publications which are different

Tridion Content Port between publications which are different

I have 2 publication trees in a single Tridion Content Manager 2009 instance

I need to port one set of content (Schemas, Components, etc) from one tree to the next. None of the trees share any common publication so we have something like this

PUB_A              --->           PUB_C   (Schemas)
   PUB_B                              PUB_D   (Components)

I can export the content OK, but nothing exists in PUB_C / D (obviously the publication names are completely different). These components are horribly nested from a legacy website so recreating them is not really an option I want to explore.

Can I use the Content Porter to do this and have it create my items in the new publication? This seems like something it should be able to do but I'm struggling to get my head round the Mapping, tried renaming the "importTarget" attrib in the mapping file but it still insists on trying to reimport to the same as the source export.

Thanks

Solution

You can use Content Porter to do this. First you need to rename the source Publications to something different, e.g. PUB_A_TEMP, PUB_B_TEMP. Then you need to rename your target Publications to have the original names of the source Publications, e.g. PUB_C > PUB_A, PUB_D > PUB_B. You can then run your CP import. Once the import has completed then you can rename the Publications back to the original values, starting by renaming the target Publications.