Creating nodes

Islandora Workbench provides several ways to create Drupal nodes. The method you should choose depends on whether the nodes you want to create are simple (no children) or complex (with children such as pages or parts), and how your content files (images, PDFs, video files, etc.) are organized:

Simple or complex	Type of children	Typical Islandora Model values	Source of input data	Workbench task	Start with this documentation
simple	no children	"Image", "Digital Document", "Video", "Audio"	CSV file containing one row per node; accompanying content files optional	create	"Preparing your data", "Creating nodes without media"
simple	no children	"Image", "Digital Document", "Video", "Audio"	no input CSV file, content files only	create_from_files	"Creating nodes from files"
complex	other simple nodes	"Compound"	CSV file containing one row per parent and one row per child, accompanying content files optional	create	"With page/child-level metadata"
complex	multiple page files	"Paged content" for parents, "Page" for children	CSV input file containing one row per parent but not rows for child pages; page files are arranged in subdirectories	create with paged_content_from_directories: true	"Using subdirectories"

Each method requires specific input data structures (CSV and files as applicable) and specific configuration settings. Refer to the linked documentation for details.