Developing portals in a team environment
Portal designer allows you to import and export parts of a portal project. The export and import functions enable development team members to work on different pages of a portal project simultaneously.
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Defining servers for publishing or importing portals
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Exporting a portal element
These instructions will guide you through exporting a portal topology fragment. This process creates a new portal project with a subset of the contents from the original portal project. Although this process can be used to create a full copy of a portal project to use in a test environment or on a server, you should only do so if you export all of the elements for your project to this copy of the project.
- In the
Project Explorer, expand your portal project node. Right-click on the Portal Configuration node and select
Export.
- In the Export wizard, expand the Portal node and select Portal Topology Fragment. Click Next.
- In the Export a Topology Fragment page, specify a name for your new project
- By default, all items within the portal project are selected for export. Deselect anything that you do not want to export to this portal topology fragment.
Note: Choosing to export all items of the portal project to a new project is recommended if you want to run on a test environment or server without disturbing your original project. However, if you choose not to export certain items to your project, then it is not recommended that you deploy a minor subset to the original Portal server.
- After making your selections for export, click Finish.
Importing a portal element
These instructions will show you how to import a portal topology fragment to its original project in your workbench. It's important to note that the portal version of both projects must be equivalent.
- In the
Project Explorer, expand the node for the portal project you wish to import to. Right-click on the Portal Configuration node and select
Import.
- In the Import wizard, expand the Portal node and select Portal Topology Fragment. Click Next.
- On the Import a Topology Fragment page, use the menu to select the project you wish to import. Also, select the fragments you wish to import from this source project. Click Next.
- Select a Destination project for your import. More than likely, the destination project will be the project that you chose to right-click on in Step 1.
- Click Finish.