Duplicate categories when importing

[pursgloveb]

Hi,

We've noticed an issue when exporting/importing content between environments - any categories assigned to the content are duplicated and added under the same parent as the content you're importing.

To reproduce the issue:

• Export a page from a site where that page contains categories.
• Import the page into a different environment.
• No errors are reported but if you then go to import data again and browse the tree you can see that the categories have been imported to the same location as the page (so in this example ‘Request a collision report’ was the page I imported under ‘Collision report’):
  

However, this automatically generated folder 'Meta keywords' and the child content of the categories cannot be seen in the CMS editing tree:

This means that the user must use the Manage Content tool in order to remove the problem folders/categories.

Is this something you've encountered yourself and are you aware of a fix or workaround?

Thanks very much!

Bradley

[MattisOlsson]

Hi!

I'm not able to reproduce this unfortunately. I have setup two environments with the same code and different databases, both with EpiCategories installed. I exported data from environment 1 and imported it into environment 2 and the categories are placed under "For all sites" or "For this site". However, you could try implementing your own IContentDataImporter to move the categories after import to correct location. You can see a sample here:

https://gist.github.com/MattisOlsson/3378fc702723c2d2b0f3d5347929c4ef