Exporting and Importing in Oracle Portal

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Oracle Portal provides a set of export and import utilities that enable you to transfer content between portals.

The most common use of these utilities is for copying or updating portal page groups and portlets between a development instance and a production instance of Oracle Portal.

Other uses of export/import include the following:

• Consolidating multiple portal instances. Consolidation may be driven by a need to reduce the number of active instances or other business considerations. For example, you may want to import multiple Oracle Portal installations to a single Oracle Portal instance.
  
• Repeat installations of Oracle Portal objects. Export/import utilities can be useful when deploying identical content across multiple Oracle Portal instances. In this case, the Oracle Portal objects (portlets, page groups, and so on.), could be created in one instance, and propagated to multiple instances using the export/import utilities.

The export and import process consists of the following steps:

1. Create transport sets and extract the content of the transport sets to transport tables. Transport sets contain the portal objects that you want to export to your target portal environment. This information is displayed in a manifest. The manifest is a list of objects in a transport set, used to provide a granular level of control over the export.
2. Move the transport set from one system (source) to another (target) using the Aquire Transport set portlet, or using the Oracle Portal export and import command-line scripts if there is an intervening firewall.
3. Import the objects from the transport tables to the target portal repository using the Import Transport Set portlet.

For more information about the export and import process, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Portal, available at the Oracle Portal Documentation Page on Oracle Technology Network.

Notes

• Export and import functions only within the same release of Oracle Portal. You cannot export and import between two different releases.
• To prevent other users from modifying objects selected for export, it is strongly recommended that only one person be responsible for maintaining a transport set.

Related Help Topics

Related Page Help

• Export Object(s)
• Register a Source Portal
• Acquire Transport Sets
• Browse Transport Sets for Export/Import

Additional Information

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For more information, go to the Oracle Portal documentation page on the Oracle Technology Network.

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