Is it possible to transfer only part of a site from production to development?
Hi. I am working on moving my website over to the new YaleSites 2016 template and my dev site is in this template but my live production site is in an older YaleSites template. I’ve tried to make changes both places every time I add content so that they mirror each other in content but there are a few places I haven’t had a chance to do this. I don’t want to do a whole site transfer though from production to development because I’ve made a lot of design changes in the dev site that I want to keep.
Is it possible (in general) to clone a YaleSites page from my production site somehow, and bring it into the dev site instead of having to manually do it all over again in the dev site to bring it into the new template and the (eventual) new production site?
To further complicate matters, I’m not talking about basic pages (which would probably be simple to just more or less copy and paste). The two things in particular I’m looking to bring back over to dev without starting from scratch are a webform and the people pages (since users have the ability to change their own pages, there were changes done that I didn’t do so it didn’t get done twice).
I did both of these things in production because they needed to be live in “real time”, but am not looking forward to re-doing them from scratch if I don’t have to do so.
Thanks for looking into this.
Victoria.
Hello Victoria,
Unfortunately it is not possible to copy parts of the site over from DEV to PROD. Our process involves making a copy of all the code and files in DEV and moving them over to PROD. This process overwrites any existing content on the site. Which is why we recommend doing a content freeze on the live site while working on the dev site.
Josue
Hi Josue, and thanks. I figured as much, especially for the “people” pages, but thought it couldn’t hurt to see if there were some way to export at least a webform structure from one site and import it to another.
Unfortunately, the content freeze on the live site wasn’t possible because of various circumstances. This was a known issue to me from the beginning and I will do a comparison of the two sites to make sure everything “new” has been transferred over to dev before going live with the new site.