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How to convert a Sitecore package into a WDP package?
Prerequisites
Download the AzureToolkit from Sitecore.
Powershell 4.x or newer ($PSVersionTable.PSVersion to check your current version)
Download and install MSDeploy.
SQL Server (The express version ...
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What are the differences between update and zip packages
Internal File Structure
A big difference is the internal structure of the .update package file. If you open up an update package file you will see the following folder structure:
A standard .zip ...
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How to take the only latest version of items as package
Yes you can but not with 1 click.
It will require some manual work but if your tree is not too big then it would be fine.
Open the Package Designer.
Add the items you want (Add Items statically)
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Package Designer shows blank modal window when clicking "Generate ZIP"
When you get seemingly odd behavior like this, it's always a good idea to check the Network tab in Chrome Dev Tools (or Firebug in Firefox or whatever it's called in IE/Edge).
When you click the "...
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What is difference between Adding Item statically and Dynamically while creating sitecore package?
Adding to what Tamás answered
Static items: is a flat list of items that you want to add to a package. This is useful if you want to move items x, y and z from environment A to B.
Dynamic items: you ...
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What is difference between Adding Item statically and Dynamically while creating sitecore package?
Based on the Sitecore documentation:
You should use static sources when you want to include all the items or files that are stored under a
specific node or folder in the content tree or if you ...
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How to build manual Sitecore Packages for deployments?
The answer below is based on the additional feedback in the comments.
Manually Creating Sitecore Packages For Install in Higher Environments
First, you should create two types of packages:
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What are uses of "Files statically" option inside Package Designer?
Files Statically/Dynamically will be used to package any files under your root website.
When you choose "Files Dynamically", you will be getting various filter options, so if you don't know the ...
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Role will not be installed as it already exists
If you added/changed/removed item access for a role, you don't need to package that role and install it in the other environment. Role is not changed.
The only thing you have to do is to add the item ...
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How to build manual Sitecore Packages for deployments?
The issue you are having is that the dynamic filters in the Package Designer work as AND filters. So by entering adding both a Creation date filter and Modification date filter the packager is ...
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How to create specific language package for an item?
When you select Items dynamically source option, you can use Language filter:
Preview clearly shows that only de version is added to the package:
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What is purpose of the 'properties' folder inside Sitecore Zip package?
Do not remove the properties folder, keep it as it is.
The file format of files under \package\items\ and \package\properties\items\ are different and they are storing different information:
File ...
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Is there a quick way to include all dependent items in a Sitecore package
You can create a package using the Scripts wizard. Here are the steps you can follow.
Right-click on the item and go to Scripts -> Packaging -> Quick Download Tree as package.
Add all the ...
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How can I move access rights on Sitecore custom role?
Access rights are stored directly on the items.
You cannot move access rights assigned for a role or user to another environment using content packages without including those items inside content ...
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Could not find configuration node: databases/database[@id='test']
You can check test database related configuration from this url:
https://<sitename>/sitecore/admin/showconfig.aspx in your browser.
You can check showconfig file through Content Editor as well :
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How to copy a Sitecore 10 site from one environment to another?
I do follow this way and it works great for me.
If you want to move the entire site/tenant from 1 environment to another you need to create a Sitecore package.
Refer following steps to create a site ...
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How to convert a Sitecore package into a WDP package?
The above response is correct for the straight up conversion of the package to a WDP (scwdp.zip).
In case it helps, there are quite a few goodies that make use of the Azure Toolkit to generate WDPs ...
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What are the differences between update and zip packages
With the update installation wizard you can install update packages remotely without direct access to the sitecore server. As it is a standard ASP.NET web application. Besides that you're able to ...
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Installing Sitecore Package deletes content
If you use override option while installing a package, it replaces every item and its descendants with items from the package.
So if you have item A in your application and it has 2 children A1 and ...
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Creating Package of Bucketed Sitecore Items
As mentioned by our Climber, you can create the package just as with normal items.
But if you don't want the entire bucket and have no idea where to look, you could use the "Items dynamically" option ...
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How to create specific language package for an item?
On Sitecore Package Designer choose 'Items dynamically' option .
On second step you can choose Language filter option where you can specify particular language for items.
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Error while uploading Sitecore Package
It looks like configuration of your website includes reference to Upload Filter tool.
It is mentioned in Secure the file upload functionality Sitecore documentation:
https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/...
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How to copy a Sitecore 10 site from one environment to another?
As you also mentioned that you created a package that includes Tenant and all it's descendants.
So you can also use this option called "Add Tree to package" while creating the package.
It ...
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Could not find configuration node: databases/database[@id='test']
Anytime you see this error message, generally, something is trying to call a Database that is NOT defined in the Sitecore configuration.
Here are some examples:
If your code is calling Database....
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Could not find configuration node: databases/database[@id='test']
If you cannot open showconfig.aspx page, you can compare Include folders to identify all files which are not part of the default Sitecore installation or are different from originals.
You can use ...
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Sitecore 8.2 package designer fails with The file exists error
The method System.IO.Path.InternalGetTempFileName() will attempt to create a file in the folder returned by System.IO.Path.GetTempPath() using a Win32Native command. If this command fails your will ...
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Sitecore Package Designer - Items Dynamically - not working
The dynamic package generation uses item Statistics to make the call if an item qualifies to be included in the package. So, if the fields there are updated, it should include it in the package.
Do ...
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Why does creating a package need MongoDB
This reason for this issue is that you have <setting name="Xdb.Enabled" value="true" /> in your Sitecore.Xdb.config.
This setting is true by default. When this is set to true, then the ANALYTICS ...
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What is difference between Adding Item statically and Dynamically while creating sitecore package?
Sitecore package designer allow us to add the following to our sitecore package:
Sitecore Items.
Files (configuration, dlls, CSS... etc.)
Security accounts
We can add the above items in two ways:
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Package Extraction - Windows cannot open the folder
In truth, I don't know why Windows 10 can unzip some Sitecore packages, but not others. For the ones that don't work in Windows, 7-Zip seems work fine.
Another thing I have found is that some ...
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