Console application for media library serialization data synchronization.

What if I want to modify serialized media library items but I don't have Sitecore instance? I cannot. Out of the box I am only able to attach media to the Sitecore item and then update serialization file via Sitecore.

This case can be easily covered by MediaLibrarySynchronizer.

Serialization data will be modified or created depending on config file. Application acts like a Sitecore but the power of MediaLibrarySynchronizer is that it doesn't require IIS and SQL. All you need is just a one exe file with few dlls.

Application will scan source folder and then recreate whole structure using Sitecore items, serialized into *.item files, so you can easily update tree in Sitecore, to fetch media into database later.

• serialization without Sitecore instance
• file system to serialization data synchronization
• can be used like Sitecore upload folder, but due to its most important job I would call it serialize instead, because it operates with *.items not a database

1 Download MediaLibrarySynchronizer and build it

2 Copy config.json.example file and change the name to config.json

3 Update json file with your environment configuration

SerializationManagerConfig

    "SerializationManagerConfig": {
        "CurrentUser": "sitecore/admin",
        "DefaultVersion": {
            "Language": "en",
            "Version": "1"
        }
    },

CurrentUser - Updated serialization items will be updated with a given user,

DefaultVersion - Updated serialization items will be updated with a given default version

SynchronizationConfig

Synchronization configurations table.

    "SynchronizationConfig": [
        {
            "SourcePath": "C:/REPOSITORIES/Example/UI/themes/theme1",
            "Destination": {
                "DataFolder": "C:/WWW/Example/Data",
                "Database": "master",
                "SitecorePath": "sitecore/media library/themes/theme1"
            }
        }
    ]

SourcePath - folder location where source media files are located (regular files),

DataFolder - Sitecore data folder where serialization node exists,

Database - destination database for serialization items,

SitecorePath - destination location in media library