importing default population

[Ted Vinke]

In our project we were always able to import a default population of a 
certain builder by placing a builder.xml in 
config/applications/<project> and that worked perfectly as we pretty 
much always needed that functionality when we start a project from 
scratch. MMBase detects there's nothing, creates a table for each 
builder and imports several default items from forementioned file - if 
ofocurse we mention there's a datasource in our projects main xml-file.

Now we are in a running project and need to import several default items 
into MMBase that's already defined (but doesn't have a population yet). 
Somehow we're unable to have MMBase automatically import that data at 
the restart of MMBase. Emptying or dropping that specific mm_[builder] 
table has no effect on triggering MMBase to import our xml-file with data.

In the documentation there's a XML Importer (TCP 2.0) mentioned, but 
that's a bit much for the 10-20 items of our builder we need to import 
straightaway, without doing it by hand :) So basically, is there either 
a way of touching a file, emptying a table or another way to have MMBase 
at restart auto importing a default population (without starting with a 
whole empty database as we normally do at the beginning of a project) or 
is there an import option in the MMBase Administration, where we can 
speficy a xml-file?

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Met vriendelijke groet,
Ted Vinke
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