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Hello everyone,
at first I'd like to thank you for that phantastic Impex-System - it's working quite well and it offers many possibilities.
Now to my points:
1) I plan to merge 3 forums from 3 different URLs. Unfortunatly Impex tries to interpret the column "importeduserid" as an asociated user (and by the way: associating does also not work at all - no matter what I enter (userid or username in vBulletin), impex tells me that the username doesn't exist, but it does). That is not very useful, I think, because after importing all forums you can't access the old links using mod_rewrite when deleting the importedids... And if you don't delete them, impex won't import any user with an ID higher than total number of users...
2) I've also discovered a little bug - okay, not a big bug, but a confusing one (especially for the end-users). The importer interprets "Moved-"flags as "real" threads. That's probably because it is one entry in bbX_threads - but it has a poll-id and the flag "closed" is set "3". It would be very good if Impex could skip these "dummy"-threads...
3) Why does impex import user-groups, when the allocation to their users is wrong and all users of this group are banned? If you ask me, it would be easier not to import groups, but put all users into vB's "Users"-Group... In the end the administrator has to re-sort them in any case...
4) A little feature-request: do you think it would be possible to import avatars and signatures as well? I mean signatures are in bbX_users saved plain, without cache or something and avatars are saved in a similar way like attachments (at least custom avatars).
Just to mention it again: I've had converters (to other forum-systems) that worked MUCH worse than Impex does - and I can live with these little things, but maybe an administrator with little knowledge (and in wBB-scene there are many of these, I can tell you
) has problems with importing successful due to this little things...
Thanks in advice :-)
greetings,
rellek
at first I'd like to thank you for that phantastic Impex-System - it's working quite well and it offers many possibilities.
Now to my points:
1) I plan to merge 3 forums from 3 different URLs. Unfortunatly Impex tries to interpret the column "importeduserid" as an asociated user (and by the way: associating does also not work at all - no matter what I enter (userid or username in vBulletin), impex tells me that the username doesn't exist, but it does). That is not very useful, I think, because after importing all forums you can't access the old links using mod_rewrite when deleting the importedids... And if you don't delete them, impex won't import any user with an ID higher than total number of users...
2) I've also discovered a little bug - okay, not a big bug, but a confusing one (especially for the end-users). The importer interprets "Moved-"flags as "real" threads. That's probably because it is one entry in bbX_threads - but it has a poll-id and the flag "closed" is set "3". It would be very good if Impex could skip these "dummy"-threads...
3) Why does impex import user-groups, when the allocation to their users is wrong and all users of this group are banned? If you ask me, it would be easier not to import groups, but put all users into vB's "Users"-Group... In the end the administrator has to re-sort them in any case...
4) A little feature-request: do you think it would be possible to import avatars and signatures as well? I mean signatures are in bbX_users saved plain, without cache or something and avatars are saved in a similar way like attachments (at least custom avatars).
Just to mention it again: I've had converters (to other forum-systems) that worked MUCH worse than Impex does - and I can live with these little things, but maybe an administrator with little knowledge (and in wBB-scene there are many of these, I can tell you
) has problems with importing successful due to this little things...Thanks in advice :-)
greetings,
rellek
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