Dev Diary 97 - Import Foundry & Foundation Projects into Elements

Elements Dev Diary
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Hey All,

Since Monday’s Classic Project Import video we’ve been working hard to make the impossible possible.

Elements can now import content from Stacks, Foundation, and Foundry projects. Before you get too excited, remember that Elements is a completely new system, so your old site design won’t carry over. What you will get is the raw content, text and images, ready to be re-styled in Elements!

The real bonus is that the Classic Importer also brings across your page structure and all the important SEO details, making the transition far smoother than starting from scratch.

Watch the video to see how you can move your Classic projects into Elements :flexed_biceps:

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Thanks for Your Feedback

The Elements app evolves directly from your suggestions, and as always, we’d love to hear what you think so far. Your feedback truly makes all the difference :blush:

Thanks again!

See you soon,
Dan @ Team Realmac

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Hi

I’ve just watched the YouTube video and was quite excited about this.

I’ve just tried it on 4 projects of varying sizes.

Some were originally RW8 files but I converted them to rwc projects first.

1 project imported fine the other 3 crashed the Elements app.

The one that imported was built using Foundry, the 3 that crashed were built with the original Foundation (i.e. not Foundation 6). Could this be the cause?

What’s the chances of you implementing a fix for original Foundation projects.

I appreciate it might be a big ask, and likely have few needing it, but it would help me out more than you might imagine :slight_smile:

Rick

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Ric I think you have jumped the gun a bit, the new update as per video will be released later today and will include what Dan has just said in diary, the origonal beta was for basic classic files only.

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As someone that has several projects in Classic , and has purchased Elements, I am definitely interested in this feature. I actually thought that an export (Rapidweaver) import (Elements) should be developed.

Is there an estimated date as to when this feature will be available?

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Looks great, @dan! A very welcome feature!

Cheers,
Erwin

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Please give the new build a try! Elements 1.2.1 contains many improvements and fixes when importing Classic Projects.

All Classic projects should now import into Elements, you just won’t get the content for Foundation 1 projects. Although this is something we might be able to add if there’s a lot of requests for it…

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Yes, right now! Elements 1.2.1 contains the Classic Project Importer :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Hi Dan, Paul…

Yes I jumped the gun. Watched the video, saw the import menu, rushed to do stuff without reading the fine print……

I’m now on 1.2.1 and I’ve just imported my >1GB Foundation project :grinning_face: :laughing:

This could be a huge timesaver for me.

Thanks to all of the Elements team for the support, hard work and enthusiasm on this. It’s appreciated more than you might realise.

Rick

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Wow, that’s awesome news!

I know migrating web projects is never easy and is always a lot of work, but I’m really looking forward to seeing all these new Element based websites :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Importing Classic projects is quite challenging. If creating a simple sample page with just one image, a button, and a paragraph requires so much effort, then attempting to import an entire website with 50 pages, tables, forms, and more would undoubtedly be a nightmare. No thanks—I’ll pass!