Undoing a successful import
When you use Content Porter, you may have times where you want to undo a successful import of content items into a Content Manager instance.
Before you begin
To perform a successful undo, the following must be the case:
- You must have created an Undo Package for the import you want to undo
- You must be logged in, either as an administrator user, or as the user who performed the import that produced the Undo Package.
- The items that were imported must not have been modified, deleted, published, rolled back, or unlocalized after the import was performed.
- The items that were imported must not be in use (checked out or in workflow) during the undo process.
About this task
You may want to undo a successful import of content items into a Content Manager instance in, for example, the following situations:
- You may be importing the same items into multiple Content Manager instances, one of which has failed. If this happens, you may want to undo the successful imports into the other instances.
- You accidentally chose the wrong import settings file, and imported the wrong items by mistake. In this case, too, you will want to undo your import.
By performing an undo, you tell Content Porter to:
- delete items that were created during the import
- replace updated items to the version of the item that existed before the import
- roll back and unlocalize items that were localized during the import
- revoke any application data that was imported.
Procedure
Results
- Content Porter undoes all changes made to the Content Manager instance by this specific import.
- Content Porter removes the Undo Package from the server.