in orchard why does manually adding entries to the database not work?

I am using the Advanced Menu for Orchard, I have alot of duplicated content to add to multiple menus so was trying to do this directly into the database.

The problem I had was when I add items to the database the items don't show up and the CMS breaks and doesn't allow items to be added (this causes a duplicate primary key error).

Can anyone te开发者_运维知识库ll me why this is, and what I would need to do if I wanted to add entries manually?

Not knowing how you've tried to add them, it's hard to say. Maybe you've created part records without content item records, making them orphans? But again, I'm just guessing, as I have no idea what you tried to do.

For manual entries you might be better off using the command line utility. see http://www.orchardproject.net/docs/Using-the-command-line-interface.ashx

Or the import/export functionality (which I think just runs the command line stuff)

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