Is there any best-practise to move user favorites to other instances?

[Zod]

Hi there,

I'm wondering if there is an easy and usable way to move favorites between instances ... I mean not only between connected instances ... .

So sure somehow you could export the sys_user_preference table for the user entries and import again ... but somehow it does not seem to be that easy to filter out only the favorites.

Anyone with a quick solution on this?

[Mike Allen]

I think they are held in the Bookmarks table.   You should just be able to narrow down by user, export to XML from one system, then Import XML in the other.

[tonyu]

Thank you for you post. I was able to locate the bookmarks and export to xml. However, upon import into another instance I noticed that the bookmarks are not all properly arranged in their respective group header names as they are in source instance. Any idea why that is? Any assistance on the matter will be greatly appreciated. 

Thank you

[dvp]

In User Preferences module search for "ng.navigator_favorites" in the name field

then you get favorites for all the users

then in the list view export it as a XML.

Exporting the records in list view with a specific filter will include all the records that are matched. (you don't need to export each and every record)

[Mike Allen]

This is true in Eureka, but does not seem to be true in Istanbul.   I don't have insight into a Helsinki instance, so I don't know if/when they changed it.