I have a website currently running on DNN 3. I want to do an export of this DNN 3 site and import it onto a website running on DNN 9.
Would that be possible?
Anything is possible, maybe, but extremely unlikely that it will be a simple process.
Your best option might be to attempt an upgrade of that DNN3 site to DNN 9.
That or just pay someone to manually recreate the pages and copy/paste content. That might even be the cheapest option :D
Sadly at this point in time this will not be possible, the templates/process for export/import have changed between the versions of DNN and it would not be a trusted or reliable process to do so.
I would second Chris' recommendation regarding just re-create the site, as most likely the modules in use etc are no longer viable.
As Mitchel and Chris already noted, the answer is no. Depending on the size of your site, I would either recreate it from scratch, maybe cou can export/import the content of one or another module and get it up and running in a reasonable time frame.
If the site is really big (and that depends on the number of pages, modules, users,...) it could be better to take some money and hire someone to help. Maybe it is possible to find an upgrade path.
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Does anyone experiment in creating salesforce Package.xml automatically for continuous integration? If there any script or some idea please share.
You know incremental package.xml helps to deploy only the modified files rather than using complete package.xml that redeploy unmodified files as well which takes a lot of time.
Thanks in advance!
Tricky. And not really a programming-related problem, consider cross-posting this to https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/ or maybe even https://devops.stackexchange.com/
I don't think there's no clear answer, you'll have to experiment. Especially that you tagged "migration tool" (so old-school, battle-tested but lower priority Metadata API; seems that all focus is now on SFDX style of deployments). Do you use any version control (ideally Git) or do you hope to somehow compare source & target org, figure out the deltas and deploy only them?
Remember that often SF gets better at detecting "no changes" with every release (how old is your migration tool's jar file?). For example when I deploy my current project to an empty sandbox (exact copy of prod, no custom objects, code etc yet) the initial deploy takes ~7 minutes. But any subsequent deploy with same content or slight changes takes just 3-4. So try to calculate time lost in the grand scheme of things and decide what gains you want to see / how much time you want to spend on experimenting and tweaking the solution.
You could look into dedicated deployment solutions such as Gearset, Autorabit, Odaseva (I'm not affiliated with either and this list is not exhaustive). They often are capable of running a comparison for you.
There are several projects that try to compose package.xml based on Git diff(erence) between two commits. Of course you need to have a repo first and some regime:
https://github.com/cloudsandbox/sfdx-gen-pack saw presentation about it at Cloudforce London 2019
https://github.com/Accenture/sfpowerkit seems to have a "diff" command (disclaimer: I used to work for Accenture but not affiliated now, haven't worked on the tool, haven't used it personally)
https://cumulusci.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ this seems to be interesting and mature. Built by SF employees, not an official tool but used to CI deploy the non-profit packages they build (maybe you heard about Non Profit Starter Pack, especially if you ever considered enabling Person Accounts). I'm not sure if they do delta deployments as such but there seems to be a command that updates package.xml with files in repository so it's a start? https://cumulusci.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#part-4-running-tasks
I'm not saying CumulusCI will be a silver bullet but out of these 3 seems to be most actively maintained ;) But sounds like you'd have to get familiar with SFDX (if not whole thing then at least commands to convert the project back and forth between "source" (SFDX) structure and Metadata API structure
Answering my question by myself: I found git diff master feature/vat | force-dev-tool changeset create vat working!
Thanks to Roman answered in https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/184332/is-there-a-pre-build-solution-for-generating-a-package-xml-from-a-git-repo
i'm struggling onto a problem that i can't find a way ti fix. I'm currently running joomla 3.4.5 and a gantry based theme. I tried minifying CSS, JS and HTML and also optimize the images with the google insight tool.
i've done a debug system and it shows that
Application: beforeRenderModule mod_rocknavmenu
implies 21.7 seconds ..... I think that is the issue .... how can i solve that?
The site is this
Thank you for your supoprt
I would guess the site is slow due to your hosting.
Also news01.png and news02.png are taking several seconds each to come through.
Update all of your extensions, out of date extensions can impact performance.
Check your slow query log, CPU, and memory usage on your server. Those will tell you more about potential issues.
Found realy easy solution - just disable System - Model plugin
Question is plain and simple:
I want to publish my latest version to selected users for beta testing. Is there any quick and dirty way to do the same.
Here is the link that I found in MSDN which is bit old and suggesting an approach but I dont think i need to put this much effort. Rather I will just use a different installer for beta testing.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480721.aspx[^]
I think you should create a new site with a different publish URL. It is the most manageable option I can think of. Users connect to that site and download the beta version and could run it in parallel with another version for comparison purposes.
You are going to have two versions of the client application so you are going to have two installers; I don't think you can get around that. Having multiple publish URLs means people don't have to uninstall/re-install the app to get the "right version".
Embrace MAGE and script it out.
Background:
We run a content management platform that hosts 20+ separate websites - some intranets and some internet sites - so that have different end points routed for internal or external access.
We are currently upgrading our infrastructure - including software versions, hardware, changes of IP/VIP/DNS entries etc which affects all of the sites.
I want to be able to run a repeatable site test against all sites check everything is working fine and I'd like to do it from different end points (locally on each box in the cluster, from the cluster level, from the internet, from the intranet extra.
Anyone know of a simple tool that requires no sofware to install to run a repeatable regression test against a whole bunch of defined URL's?
I was thinking of a HTML page that I can run from different locations that is essentially a link checker.
Can anyone recommend a simple way to provide a level of automatic testing of our sites (in addition to our manual verification.
Thanks
Sounds like you're looking for Selenium: http://seleniumhq.org/
Edit
Wait, I think you mean 'Testing' them as in, check to see if they're online and reachable? Then I might just automate a series of ping or telnet commands, and check appropriate things. Would take a matter of minutes to write a little app in any language to do this.
There is all sorts of web site monitoring software available (check google, or ask for recos here). That's what you're looking for. There is a whole range from free to very expensive that monitor and stress your site from around the world.
Or you can write simple shell scripts that do what you want.
>> 'Testing' them as in, check to see if they're online and reachable?
Yes that's exactly it!! I was thinking the same - I could script something up but I thought I'd check first to see if someone has already done this - I guess not!
Thanks
Doesn't fit the "requires no sofware to install to run" part, and it's not necessarily super-cheap, but we've had great results with Radar Website Monitor for this kind of thing.
Is there a simple and automatic way of checking if a visitor to my website (written in asp.net) is using the latest version of his browser? This would allow me to display a message to inform them that they're running an old version and that they might want to upgrade.
My website is tested on most broswers but I don't test old versions (such as Internet Explorer 6 etc). When one of my visitors is using such an old version, basically, I would like to encourage (not force) them to upgrade.
Of course I could do this myself by getting the version of the browser and look it up in my database but I don't want to have to maintain a 'browser version' database myself.
Any ideas?
Speaking as a user of websites, if I come across a site that advised me to upgrade my browser then that would be an immediate black mark against that site.
I might not be able to upgrade (if I'm accessing from a corporate network for example); I might have a specific reason for using a particular version (if I'm a web developer wanting to ensure compatibility with my user community for example).
So personally, I would say that a blanket disclaimer that you don't test this site on earlier versions would be the way to go. That's quite apart from the technical challenge of what you want to do.
Edit: as Yeti points out, however valid my concerns, I don't answer the question directly. This is done in Pace's answer, and the w3schools resource he points to gives you what you need to do this on the client side.