[CPS-users] Adding contacts database

[Lennart Regebro]

On 1/17/07, Mário Valente <mvalente at itij.mj.pt> wrote:
>   I wont even comment. In 5 years in the CMS world there's never
>  been a need to bulk load formatted data? Of any kind?

Of course there has. Loads of them. Each of them with it's own peculiarities.

> Be it contacts
>  or address lists or people lists? You do it by hand every time? I was
>  expecting a more credible answer than this.

Yes, and you got a more credible answer, but proceeded to misinterpret
it to make it less credible, so that you could ignore it.

>   I want a CMS. I am resisting it. I just want a better way to
>  define a new content type (be it CPSSchema or Archetype) and
>  load previous data automatically, instead of inserting thousands
>  of records by hand just because "a CMS is not na HTML interface
>  to a bunch of SQL tables".

You don't need to insert thousands of documents by hand. Writing a
script for it is usually not a complicated affair.

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