Developer forum

Hi Anders,

Is it items or is it something else?

Items are automatically transferred when you deploy areas, pages and paragraphs (Settings > Developer > Deployment > Content).

If you are trying to transfer raw data from some table then you can create a custom configuration and use the SqlDataItemProvider. Something like this...

<DataGroup Id="MyDataGroup">
  <DataItemTypes>
    <DataItemType Id="MyData" ProviderTypeName="Dynamicweb.Deployment.DataItemProviders.Sql.SqlDataItemProvider">
      <ProviderParameters>
        <Parameter Name="Table" Value="MyCustomTable" />
      </ProviderParameters>
    </DataItemType>
  </DataItemTypes>
</DataGroup>

The configuration should be placed in the folder /Files/System/Deployment/DataGroups

Documentation is here: http://doc.dynamicweb.com/documentation-9/platform/platform-tools/deployment-tool

Best regards,
Morten

Hi Morten,

I am trying to deploy only the item structures which is defined in the database, and this does not seem to do the trick as it is for files:

    <DataItemType Id="ItemTypes" Name="Item types" ProviderTypeName="Dynamicweb.Deployment.DataItemProviders.Files.FilesDataItemProvider">
      <ProviderParameters>
        <Parameter Name="RecursiveSearch" Value="false" />
        <Parameter Name="TargetPath" Value="/Files/System/Items" />
      </ProviderParameters>
    </DataItemType>

Should I use another provider?

You should be able to do that using the SqlDataItemProvider...

<DataItemType Id="ItemTypesDatabase" Name="Item types (database)" ProviderTypeName="Dynamicweb.Deployment.DataItemProviders.Sql.SqlDataItemProvider">
  <ProviderParameters>
    <Parameter Name="Table" Value="ItemTypeDefinitions" />
  </ProviderParameters>
</DataItemType>