Question about using collective.exportimport and the translations

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Hi community,

Do you have experience exporting/importing a multilingual website using collective.exportimport?

I can image there are two general approaches

First approach

  • First, import all pages with the root language

  • Then import the respective translations

Second approach

  • Every time a page is imported, the translations are also imported.

The first approach seems more uncontrolled. for example, if a page with a root language fails to import, it will try later on to import the translations, which will make no sense.

What are your experiences importing a multilanguage website? What are the best practices?

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You can import all the content at same time. There is an additional import view which will import the translation connections.

We haven't used collective.exportimport to import a multilingual site yet, but in the past we have imported a lot of sites using transmogrifier, and the pattern is always the same: first you should import all the content "unconnected", and as a last step connect the translations.

The point is that to connect the translations you need to have all the contents in the site.

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Thank you so much for your answer @erral,

Your explanation was what I was looking for and it helped me a lot for understanding how I should proceed.