User Guide
Below find direction on how to manage the many features of mp-layers:
It is possible to migrate your themes from one server to another. This export will include:
- Every Theme that is a child of the Theme being exported, one of their children, or any other 'descendant'.
- Every Layer that is a child of the Theme being exported, one of their children, or any other 'descendant'.
- Every ordering to maintain the assigned hierarchy of Themes and Layers
- Every related object needed to support each Layer such as Companions, Attribute Infos, Lookup Infos, and Sliders
- This does NOT include 'site' info (see 'Importing Theme Fixtures' for details)
The process is straight forward:
- Log in as an administrator to your.site.com/django-admin
- Navigate to Layers->Themes (your.site.com/django-admin/layers/theme/
- select the Theme(s) you wish to export
- You may select more than one
- You don't need to select themes that are 'descendants' of other selected themes, this will only slow your export down
- Select the 'Export Theme(s) For Migration' action and click Go
Your browser will download a .json file to your default downloads folder. This is your 'fixture' file.
Once you have exported a Theme 'fixture' file from a 'source' Madrona Portal server, you can now import your Theme and all of its descendants into a new 'target' server.
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Log in as an administrator to your.site.com/django-admin
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Navigate to Layers->Themes (your.site.com/django-admin/layers/theme/
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Click the 'IMPORT THEME FIXTURE' button at the top right of your screen
- This is not the same as the 'IMPORT' button
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On the next screen, click the 'Browse...' button and find your fixture file
- The name will be something like 'themes_x_y_z.json' where x, y, and z would be the IDs of three different selected during the 'Export Theme Fixtures' process above. You may have only selected 1 ('themes_x.json'), or several more.
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Click on the 'Preview' button to begin the upload. Once your fixture has been processed, you will be shown a list of all changes and updates that will be made by importing this file.
- At this time, nothing has been changed on your target server - cancelling the import will leave your site as it was.
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Review the changes, then click 'Confirm' to accept those changes into your site, or 'Cancel' to reject them.
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If you confirm, when the process is complete, you will be redirected to the Themes page and a status message will appear at the top
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