OpenWGA 7.5 - OpenWGA Concepts and Features

If your design or plugin has a special dataset where its content store should be initialized with you can deposit it as a content store dump in the system file container under "/files/system". OpenWGA will import the content store dump to the content store of your application or plugin when it is empty (i.e. has no website areas, content types and language definitions).

This is one way of initializing your content store which is especially suitable when you need a huge dataset to be created, including already existing content documents. Other ways that suit other situations are specifying a schema or creating the needed resources in an initialisation script (see Tab "Design Configuration").

An OpenWGA content store dump is a file of suffix ".wgacs". You can create a dump on the OpenWGA admin client from the data of any existing OpenWGA web application when in "Expert Mode" (Checkbox to the top right). You will find a menu "Database" on the "Contentstore configuration" section of each web app where you can "Export" a database dump that will contain all schema and content of this application:

• init.wgacs: This is a normal initial dataset that is used for OpenWGA applications using this design and also for plugins if no special dataset for this case is defined.
• plugin-init.wgacs: This is a special initial dataset that is only being used for initializing the content stores of OpenWGA plugins. That way the initial dataset of applications using the plugin as design provider and the plugin itself may differ.

When an empty content store gets connected to an OpenWGA application using your design it will be filled with your initial data set automatically. You can see this process in the application log which should look like this: