Adapt Learning Community: Is the import/export course tool available yet?

Hi everyone,

I read about an "import/export" feature to move courses between different installs (https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt_authoring/pull/1630)

Is there available yet?

Thanks!

Hi Isabel,

unfortunately the import is not available yet. But it's on going.

By the way, if you own the authoring instance and you have access to the server, a manual migration to another environment can be done. Let me know if you need other info about it.

Cheers, Fabio.

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Hi Fabio, I would be interested in knowing more about how to perform the manual migration of a course created in the Framework into my Authoring environment.

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Hi Fabio,

Thanks for your replay. if you can provide more info about manual migration, it would be great.

By the way, is there a launch date for the "import"?

Best,

Isabel

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It would be very handy to know what the route was to do a manual migration. Could you provide the steps (assuming it's possible when using the authoring tool)? Until the next big release as per the roadmap, this is pretty much the only sticky issue with the AT for us. Many thanks, Jonathan

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Hi Jonathan and Isabel,

the core authoring tool developers have just agreed that the import/export functionality will be the main feature of the next release - v0.5.0. It's always difficult to promise a delivery date on an open source project, but to give you an idea of timescales we're hoping to have a release candidate available in the next six weeks.

Kind regards,

Peter.

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That's really encouraging news - thanks for replying

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That's good, I look forward to that.

Meantime I have just taken over a colleague's project with several courses. How do I get those onto my adapt installation on my laptop in order to maintain them?

Thanks for any advice!

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Hi Peter,

Thanks for the good news.

Regards,

Isabel

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hi fabio,

how can i do a manual migration course from a server to other?

thanks

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Hi, I've just install the latest version of the AT on a new machine and would love to know how to migrate the previous database over if possible. I've tried everything but am having no luck thus far.

Thanks in advance!

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Hi Mark,

Note that this technique will replace any data in your new installation

To do this, you'll need to copy some of the folders in your adapt_authoring folder (namely conf and temp) to your new installation, replacing the existing ones.

You'll then need to make a backup of your Mongo database, copy it, and import it to Mongo on your new machine. You can find instructions on doing this here (mongodump for backup, mongorestore for restoration): https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/backup-and-restore-tools/

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Thanks for the advice above. Ive copied the 2 folders over but as I'm not using Mongo and rather the older version of Adapt using vagrant, I haven't got a Mongo database to migrate. Is there a method for migrating a vagrant database?

Thanks again!

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