People coming to Plone from other CMS or from no CMS at all often want to be able to bulk import existing content. There are also cases of sites which produce a high volume of content that needs to be published constantly.
The easiest way to achieve the goal of allowing import/export of structured content currently is through introspectable schemas. Archetypes provides this right now. However, Archetypes expects a schema to have only one marshaller component, and the default ones are not able to marshall all the facets of a complex piece of content by themselves.
The Marshall product provides the missing pieces of this complicated puzzle by giving you:
- A
ControlledMarshallerimplementation, which resorts on a tool to decide which marshaller implementation should be used for marshalling a given piece of content or demarshalling an uploaded file. - A
marshaller_toolwhich sits on the root of your CMF/Plone site and that allows you to do fine grained control of marshallers. - Simple export functionality to dump the Archetypes-based objects of your CMF/Plone site as a hierarchy of files in .zip format.
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