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pluginpal / strapi-plugin-config-sync

:recycle: CLI & GUI for continuous migration of config data across environments
https://www.pluginpal.io/plugin/config-sync
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Does not export data #90

Closed hassanzadeh closed 1 year ago

hassanzadeh commented 1 year ago

Hey Guys, I don't know if this is a bug or the feature is not implemented, but on the market it says: "This plugin is a multi-purpose tool to manage your Strapi database records through JSON files", but the database records are not exported actually. Is this plugin useful for exporting the entries as well? When I add a new record and I Retrigger an export, it says: [notice] There are no changes to export.

THanks

boazpoolman commented 1 year ago

It really depends on what kind of records you are creating. By default just 4 types will be tracked. Please read the config types section of the readme. If you want to track other type of records you can register them through the customTypes plugin config. Also documented in the readme.

hassanzadeh commented 1 year ago

I'm using just very regular content types, say the default User type, and create a single user. Even that is not exported.

hassanzadeh commented 1 year ago

Ok, maybe we are talking about different things, I'm talking about records not types, for example the default boilerplate comes with a User type, when you create an specific user (eg, user John Doe, with relevant fields), those types of data are not exported.

boazpoolman commented 1 year ago

I think you might misunderstand the use of this plugin. I would like to redirect you to this article to get some more insight.

Quoting from the article:

This plugin is not for all your database records. It is really meant for those config tables of which the records are mainly created/updated by the developer, not by the client. You are free to use this plugin for any table you want, but by default, 4 tables are tracked.

If you are looking for a full-on database dump, exporting everything without continuous graceful imports you might be better of using the native data management system.

hassanzadeh commented 1 year ago

Got it, thanks for that.