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?

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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.

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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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