How would you accomplish this with DTS? Just asking for a friend.

[PaulBratslavsky]

[Regarding this file](https://github.com/strapi/strapi-cloud-template-blog/blob/main/src/bootstrap.js_

[kibwashere]

hi @PaulBratslavsky !

I might not be the best one to answer but I believe it's not something we can manage.. 🤔
The template is generated using a command such as create strapi-app my-project --templates @strapi/template-XXX so it means with the current way we are handle Strapi Cloud Templates, it's not doable - or am I missing something? happy to get more details about DTS :)

[PaulBratslavsky]

@kibwashere Thank you for the answer.

I wonder if this means that we need to update the template to include the seed-data.tar.gz file with the seed data and remove the code in the bootstrap.js file and instead just trigger yarn strapi import -f seed-data.tar.gz on deployment, the only issue with that. Is when pulling the code to local repo. I think we will have to run the import command manually.

I wonder if there is a programmatic way to trigger this without the CLI. Like is there a way to access DTS from via the bootstrap.js file.

I will try to bug some more people on the team around this topic. It seems we put so much time into DTS, that it should be the standard way to handle data imports or seeding.