SDL Content Porter

A structured web development process is critical to ensure a transparent and well-managed web development process. Content Porter ensures a structured quality-control process for all online content. It allows you to transfer any type of content managed in Content Manager between different SDL Tridion environments.

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Transfer content
Since Content Porter allows you to coordinate different SDL Tridion systems, you can develop content and Web site functionality apart from the live site, and then transfer this content to the live environment. This allows you to create and use business processes that involve more than one SDL Tridion environment. In addition Content Porter can transfer items between environments that run on different SDL Tridion versions.
Roll back options
Before starting the content transfer session, Content Porter detects and reports possible import problems. After resolving these reportes issues, you can expect a smooth and fast transfer process. However, there is still a chance that a problem occurs during the content transfer. Should any problems arise during the import session, Content Porter automatically rolls back all transferred items.
Port content
Many organisations store existing content in departmental databases, spreadsheets or other types of data storage. Using Content Porter, you can easily migrate this content to Content Manager and use 2009 as a publishing engine for this content. Content Porter can connect to any OLEDB or ODBC data store and provides access to a wide range of different data sources.

Benefits

Structured Web development processes
Content Porter provides the flexibility you need to integrate different environments. It allows you to transfer content across different SDL Tridion environments used for quality assurance such as development, testing, acceptance and production. As a result, you can ensure that the published Web site is robust and offers visitors the high-performance interactivity they have come to expect.
Easy-to-use wizard interface
Content Porter is a Windows client that provides an intuitive wizard user interface. Those responsible for transferring content can easily select fields from a data source and map these fields to specific XML fields. You can also save frequently used configurations within a configuration file and run the Content Porter in a command line.
Upgrade one-by-one
When upgrading your environments to a new SDL Tridion version, you can do that one-by-one. Content Porter allows you transfer and synchronise Content Manager items between environments that run on different SDL Tridion versions.