You can import and export Workbench content for any of the following purposes:
Copying Workbench content from one environment to another environment
Versioning of your application's Workbench content
Promoting content from authoring to live environments. For detailed information about how to do this, see Promoting application content to a production environment.
Workbench content is exported in JSON files. The JSON file is exported to a folder whose name is identical to that of the Workbench content; for example, the JSON file for pages is exported to a folder named pages.
Some types of Workbench content have specific data relating to individual components associated with them; this additional data is exported as xml files to the same folder as the JSON files. Workbench content for thesaurus entries, keyword redirects, and user segments is exported only as JSON, because it has no additional content associated with it.
You can use the
runcommand script
in the
\control directory of your application to run the
commands that import and export Workbench content.
