How Slingshot Works

Slingshot works in a two-step process: 1) grab the data from your old system, and 2) move the data into Rock. When Slingshot pulls the data from the previous CMS, it bundles it into a .slingshot file, then imports that file into Rock. One of the great things about Slingshot is you don’t need to be a Rock expert to use it. All you need to do is tell it which data to pull, and click the button to start the import.

Features

Here are the things that make Slingshot a great migration tool:

• It’s super simple to use. You don’t need to be a database administrator to use

Slingshot.

• It’s easy to watch the progress of your migration and test if it was successful.

• It allows you to specify the types of records to import and from what time

frame.

• It uses a Foreign System Key to differentiate between files containing the

same data.

• It’s fast. Your data will be migrated in a matter of hours, as opposed to days.

What to Expect

We think Slingshot is pretty awesome, but it doesn’t do everything we want it to yet. (Don’t worry. We’ll keep working on it until it does.) You can trust it to grab all the data it can from your current system, though, and import it into Rock.

After the import, you may find the data needs some cleaning up. Think again about what it’s like moving houses. After you’ve unpacked your boxes, you need to organize. You need to make sure the cereal bowls aren’t in the bathroom cabinets and the DVDs didn’t get tucked away in the laundry room. It’s the same with Slingshot. The data will need some tidying up. For example, your attendance data will be in Rock, but it will need some configuring before it shows up in analytics. With the help of your database administrator and some SQL scripts, though, analytics (as well as all of your Rock functions) will be up and running in no time.