good afternoon everyone. I am very new to umbraco and am in desperate need of help. I have a customer that has a site done in .net that we need to be able to manage. can I import these pages into umbraco? if so, can you please show me how? i am willing to pay for help..
As always - it depends. You could run the "old" site next to umbraco and use Umbraco for public content and the old keep the old stuff as they are and use them. Could you explain more about the site you are trying to move into umbraco? Is it a content heavy site or more focus on business logic?
Usercontrols are very easy to inlcude into the umbraco sites so that could be an option as well.
It looks like the site was done in .net c#. its content heavy. I am taking it over from a hosted company.. there are alot of user controls, however, most of them, they were not willing to release to me. I have the database. it was exported into access. how can i get that into umbraco? and how can i get those pages in?
For the database migration, you might have a look at the CMSImport package at this url : http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/cmsimport It can be used to import data from a lot of data sources, including access, into Umbraco
For the pages themselves, if you do not have the source, I think you will need to go like Markus mentions: keep the existing files as-is and run them side-by-side with Umbraco, while making public content and new functionalities into Umbraco. Or else you have to start trying to decompile the code you received to rebuild the controls and include them in Umbraco as macro's.
okay.. im trying to use cmsimport to import the data into umbraco, and i am getting this error; "Error validating the Data source: Keyword not supported: 'provider'". here is my connectionstring..
Sorry access is only supported on the commercial version of CMSImport. The free version supports sql server,csv and xml maybe you can convert your access db to sql server otherwise the commercial version is something you can use.
Importing an external site.
good afternoon everyone. I am very new to umbraco and am in desperate need of help. I have a customer that has a site done in .net that we need to be able to manage. can I import these pages into umbraco? if so, can you please show me how? i am willing to pay for help..
Hi Brian!
Welcome to the community!!
As always - it depends. You could run the "old" site next to umbraco and use Umbraco for public content and the old keep the old stuff as they are and use them. Could you explain more about the site you are trying to move into umbraco? Is it a content heavy site or more focus on business logic?
Usercontrols are very easy to inlcude into the umbraco sites so that could be an option as well.
It looks like the site was done in .net c#. its content heavy. I am taking it over from a hosted company.. there are alot of user controls, however, most of them, they were not willing to release to me. I have the database. it was exported into access. how can i get that into umbraco? and how can i get those pages in?
Hi Brian,
For the database migration, you might have a look at the CMSImport package at this url : http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/cmsimport
It can be used to import data from a lot of data sources, including access, into Umbraco
For the pages themselves, if you do not have the source, I think you will need to go like Markus mentions: keep the existing files as-is and run them side-by-side with Umbraco, while making public content and new functionalities into Umbraco. Or else you have to start trying to decompile the code you received to rebuild the controls and include them in Umbraco as macro's.
Cheers,
Michael.
okay.. im trying to use cmsimport to import the data into umbraco, and i am getting this error; "Error validating the Data source: Keyword not supported: 'provider'". here is my connectionstring..
Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;Initial Catalog=HalloranSage;Data Source=HS-INTERNET\SQLEXPRESS
any ideas? i went into the apppool and made sure it supported 32bit.. still not working.
Hi Brian,
Sorry access is only supported on the commercial version of CMSImport. The free version supports sql server,csv and xml maybe you can convert your access db to sql server otherwise the commercial version is something you can use.
Best,
Richard
Hey Richard,
I did convert it to SQL. Im getting this error trying to attach to the sql database.
thanks
Try to remove Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;
Have seen some issues with that.
Cheers,
Richard
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