没有Sitefinity同步模块的Sitefinity数据库迁移

Question

Scenario:

Development Environment: Trial License for Sitefinity

Staging Environment: Purchased License from Sitefinity (but without Sync Module).

I am working on a project. Actually I developed some code & other contents (using Sitefinity's Admin panel including Templates, Pages, Images) locally. Now I want to Migrate/Sync the new changes to staging environment. But Staging environment License dosen't has the facility to Sync. I tried to use visual studio 2013 data comparison tool But using this I had PageId conflict. I debugged this issue found that some ID's ware different on both Databases, sply for Ownr field.

I want to know if I change this Field value & copy new records in Staging DB will solve my problem.

Or there's any other way to integrate my changes to Staging Database.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you haven't made changes to the staging environment, you could take a backup of your local database and reinstate it over the staging database. Its sounds like all your changes (templates, pages and images) are going to be stored in the database by default. Any configuration changes you might have made locally are going to be stored in the App_Data/Sitefinity/Configuration folder, so you might want to publish your local project and use a tool like Beyond Compare to view those differences and migrate those over to staging as well.

I agree, without the purchase of the Site Sync license keeping different Sitefinity environments in sync is a major headache. If I'm doing development work on a Sitefinity site that is in production, I end up having to recreate the page and db changes on that server once the changes are ready for the live environment.