Walkthrough: Synchronizing data from a text file to Sitecore

Current version: 5.0

This walkthrough tells you how to configure a pipeline batch that uses the file system provider to create and populate Sitecore items from the contents of a text file.

In this walkthrough, you create a file that contains information about different cities. Each row in the file represents a single city. Each city is represented in Sitecore as an item.

The synchronization process reads the cities from the file and creates Sitecore items for each. If a Sitecore item already exists for a city in the file, the Sitecore item is updated with the information from the file.

The walkthrough shows you how to perform the actions in the following table.

Action

Topics

create a test import file

Create a source file

create a tenant to contain all the DEF items and settings needed

Create a tenant

prepare the Sitecore content database for receiving the imported values

Create a template for target items

Add a parent item for target items

create components to read the lines from the source file

Add an endpoint for the source file

Add value accessors for the source file

create components to write the lines to the Sitecore content database

Add an endpoint for target items

Add value accessors for the target items

create a pipeline that receives a line from the source file, transforms its values, and writes them to the Sitecore content database

Add a pipeline to read the source file

Add a pipeline step to read data from a source file

Add a pipeline step to iterate the data read from a source file

create a pipeline that reads the source file, and calls the first pipeline for each line

Add a pipeline to sync a single row from the source file

Add a pipeline step to resolve the target item

Add a pipeline step to apply mappings

Add a pipeline step to update the target item

create a pipeline batch that runs the pipelines in sequence

Add a pipeline batch

run the pipeline batch

Test a pipeline batch

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