Pure to Contensis Importer

Tested with Pure 5.11 and Contensis 11.0.

Integration between the Reseach Information System (RIS) Pure and the Content Management System (CMS) Contensis.

Imports Person entries in Pure into a ContentType in Contensis called Academic Staff. Deletes all existing entries and re-adds as new from Pure import.

Requirements

• .Net Core 2.0 Runtime
• Pure 5.11 installation
• Contensis >11.0 installation

RIS and CMS configuration

Pure

In the Administrator section create an API Key (in Security settings) and grant it access to the endpoints Person and Research output.

Contensis

Setup a ContentType in Contensis called "Academic Staff" with fields:

Number 'PureId'
Text 'Title'
Text 'First Name'
Text 'Last Name'
Text 'Email'

Create an API key with permissions to save and publish this Content type (see Contensis documentation on Zenhub).

Installation

1. Copy AppSecrets.config.example -> [SomeLocation]\AppSecrets.config
2. Edit App.config to refer to the file, e.g. <appSettings file="C:\[SomeLocation]\AppSecrets.config">
3. Edit your AppSecrets.config file with
   • CMS url
   • Contensis Client ID and Shared Secret (setup in Content-Types section).
   • Pure API url
   • Pure API key