Import-Export

Import / Export Layouts and Media
Is desirable to have the ability to import / export layouts between server installs. Possible features include: * Packaging in a ZIP (or tarball) * Including associated media

IM Conversation 25/05/2009
Alex says: but I recon there might be a market for a layout exchange not quite sure how we'd structure it, but like the theme sites people can upload layouts they've made under a creative commons license Dan says: hmm - and then import! nice, i like it Alex says: yeah so instead of having to make a "latest news" slide you can just download one and tweek the feed url Dan says: thus far I have thought of import/export to be a purely layout/region/background thing... but i guess that actually it could be extended to suck everything in to a ZIP file (media and all) optionally of course Alex says: yeah rss and txt are in the xml anyhow tho aren't they? pulling the media too would be good so you can transfer the whole lot from one install to another Dan says: yeh - they are in the XML but they wont be so much with content streams which is a good thing Alex says: perhaps you could have an "export template" which takes the layout/background and an "export" that pulls the whole thing Dan says: maybe the export / import could include checkboxes for things to include / not like some sort of Wizard Alex says: hehe Dan says: is a good idea maybe put it in 1.1 Alex says: yeah if possible it'd be good to get that kind of comunity going sooner rather than later also it would be good if the import could handle importing more than one layout at once so you could pull in the whole test suite? perhaps have it support a zip full of zips?