Jeremy
in memoriam 1991-2020
If doesn't support many of the new features. He's offered his code to the highest bidder... In a way. Haha. Any one is free to take over.
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vB4 Importer: How do you want it to work?
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MGSteve
Well-known member
hmm, and probably something to do with his employment by IB....
rootsxrocks
Active member
While I am mostly listening and havn't yet considered some details because I haven't explored XF enough to figure out the best way to use it.
Our situation is that we have just a few blogs but they are good quality blog post and I would like to maintain them as a separate entity perhaps on the users profile were they can be subscribed to by friends and have a separate feed from the forum post.
Articles we just havn't had much real use for them I have written a few but there is still great confusion since it creates duplicate threads,
The only reason I bought the CMS was to use it as a bussiness directory without any extensive revue tools and that has not worked out since I can't import a Database with custom fields, however I have spent a lot of time creating the category structure and would like a way to export it to another compatible directory ad on.
I do think groups would be useful but the way they are hidden our members have forgot they exist, much less figured out how to use them so it won't be a great loss.
Our situation is that we have just a few blogs but they are good quality blog post and I would like to maintain them as a separate entity perhaps on the users profile were they can be subscribed to by friends and have a separate feed from the forum post.
Articles we just havn't had much real use for them I have written a few but there is still great confusion since it creates duplicate threads,
The only reason I bought the CMS was to use it as a bussiness directory without any extensive revue tools and that has not worked out since I can't import a Database with custom fields, however I have spent a lot of time creating the category structure and would like a way to export it to another compatible directory ad on.
I do think groups would be useful but the way they are hidden our members have forgot they exist, much less figured out how to use them so it won't be a great loss.
rootsxrocks
Active member
I'm not sure I understand what a page/node structure would look like but it sounds like it might work for me. I just want it to be easy to cross reference when someone is looking for a particular thing for example if they the searched 'grass' they might get lawn service , mower repair, irrigation and pest control companies as well as sod suppliers and informational articles on grass.
Jeremy
in memoriam 1991-2020
Pages are nodes, jsut like forums. So categories and pages would go in a hierarchical fashion. Such as:
- CMS
-- Lawn Services
--- Grass
--- Garden
-- House Services
--- Cleaning
--- Remodels
... etc ...
Pages are completely handled by XF and the search system (I believe), so that'll be good.
- CMS
-- Lawn Services
--- Grass
--- Garden
-- House Services
--- Cleaning
--- Remodels
... etc ...
Pages are completely handled by XF and the search system (I believe), so that'll be good.
Jeremy
in memoriam 1991-2020
LN Blog is what you'll want, and I'll be importing to it.
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ragtek
Guest
No, they aren't handled by the search
Marcus
Well-known member
user passwords are imported from Paul M vb 4 importer and will sure be imported from this importer. This is a non-issue
el canadiano
Active member
Are you going to consider forking Paul M's importer?
Digital Doctor
Well-known member
Have you tried the current one ? What didn't work ?So I'll migrate my vb boards as soon as this add-on will be ready
Marcus
Well-known member
Put attachments into database is my advise. Do it for regular attachments and custom avatars.
Forsaken
Well-known member
He's creating this from scratch for reasons that'll be apparent later on.
giorgino
Well-known member
First I waiting for 1.1 Gold, second seems to be problems with attachments/avatars... and missed compatibility with 1.1 version other than support ended
Marcus
Well-known member
Attachments and Avatars are imported fine. They are stored into the database, until you specifically changed it otherwise. In this case, you just have to put them back into the database inFirst I waiting for 1.1 Gold, second seems to be problems with attachments/avatars... and missed compatibility with 1.1 version other than support ended
- vbulletin>admincp>attachments>storage type: database
- vbulletin>admincp>avatars>storage type: database
giorgino
Well-known member
Thank you for reporting your experience
I'll give a try with your method as soon as 1.1 gold will be out
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Floris
Guest
Question.
vBulletin 4 has custom avatars, attachments, albums, group images, etc as option to be stored in the file system. Something big-boards do for obvious reasons.
I know the import scripts ask for the attachment path, but not the rest.
I have no clue thankfully if vB4 stores them in the db as well as the file system, so importing these will go fine. Or if it perhaps is handy to have an option to these paths as well?
vBulletin 4 has custom avatars, attachments, albums, group images, etc as option to be stored in the file system. Something big-boards do for obvious reasons.
I know the import scripts ask for the attachment path, but not the rest.
I have no clue thankfully if vB4 stores them in the db as well as the file system, so importing these will go fine. Or if it perhaps is handy to have an option to these paths as well?
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