Converting AM1 to CMS Builder
11 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: January 11, 2008 (RSS)
By Janet - January 5, 2008
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Re: [Janet] Converting AM1 to CMS Builder
By Dave - January 6, 2008
CMS Builder doesn't have nested categories, and there isn't different access levels (writer, editor, etc) for different categories, you can grant user access to a section editor or not. Also no email notification of article changes (not sure if that was introduced in AM1 or AM2).
If you're not using those features or have other ways to make it work in CMS Builder, I could write an import script for you to move the data over. You'd want to make sure it did everything you needed first.
The way I'd recommend to move forward is to get a copy of CMS Builder and try it out, see if it looks like you can do the job with it. If you think it can, just let me know and we'll help you with the data migration, if not you can always just return it within the 90 days.
Hope that helps. Let us know if you want to go ahead with that. We would like to start creating a migration path for some of the older products. And if there's still an important feature missing, keep an eye on the releases and the newsletter because we're adding new features with every update (or even better, post your feature requests in this forum).
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Re: [Dave] Converting AM1 to CMS Builder
By Janet - January 6, 2008
I've had such great success with your software and I've developed such a wonderful relationship with your team that I have no doubts about trying CMS Builder.
I'll "get my feet wet", though, and try it out on a new site I'm building for our School of Ecology.
By the way, I've got a bunch of AM2 licenses I purchased last year - can I convert one or two of those to CMS Builder licenses?
Please let me take this opportunity to tell you what a pleasure it is to work with your company.
Jan
Re: [Janet] Converting AM1 to CMS Builder
By Dave - January 6, 2008
Sure, you can credit usused licenses towards CMS Builder, just put an order through and list the license numbers you want to credit in the notes and that I said it was ok.
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Re: [Dave] Converting AM1 to CMS Builder
By Janet - January 6, 2008
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Re: [Dave] Converting AM1 to CMS Builder
By loccom - January 10, 2008
If you're not using those features or have other ways to make it work in CMS Builder, I could write an import script for you to move the data over. You'd want to make sure it did everything you needed first.
I wouldnt mind using an import script. Categories are not a problem and i am the only user. But think my news data would be good in CMSB
in CMSB on the news page, when you see the summaries does it dump them all on one page or can you stipulate how many summaries per page? and then see page 1, 2, 3 and so on?
thanks
Re: [steveo] Converting AM1 to CMS Builder
By Dave - January 10, 2008
As for importing AM1, once you have CMS Builder setup the way you want let me know and I can start working on that for you. It make take few tries but I'm sure we can figure it out. Do you have many articles?
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Re: [Dave] Converting AM1 to CMS Builder
By loccom - January 10, 2008
I have about 200 articles on each site. I have 2 sites with AM installed.
Re: [steveo] Converting AM1 to CMS Builder
By Dave - January 10, 2008
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Re: [Dave] Converting AM1 to CMS Builder
By loccom - January 11, 2008
Would this be ok to convert? Which tables would you require?
thanks
Steve