ImpEx - Registered Users?

[Palmer]

My programmer imported users from vB 3.6.3 to vB 3.6.4 and there are several Custom Usergroups with the prefix ImpEx as well as the default usergroups.

I attempted to do a mass move/prune of the users from the custom to the default usergroup but the ImpEx - Registered Users usergroup doesn't show up.

How can I fix this and put things back to normal?

[Steve Machol]

Actually you should have followed the 'After the Import' instructions here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex_cleanup

If things are all messed up you may have to clear out the imported data and redo the import.

[Palmer]

Actually you should have followed the 'After the Import' instructions here: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex_cleanup

Thank you Steve. Is there a particular place where these files to delete are located?...

"Once you have finished and completed an import and your site is up and running, delete all the ImpEx files."

I do not see a folder or files like this on the server.

[Steve Machol]

If you installed Impex correclty then the files are in the 'impex' subdirecotry of your main forum directory.

[Palmer]

If you installed Impex correclty then the files are in the 'impex' subdirecotry of your main forum directory.

It's not there. What can be done at this point? We plan on doing a final import of the data Tuesday evening.

[Steve Machol]

Then I don't see how you could have installed or run Impex at all. Where exactly did you install it to?

[Palmer]

I didn't do the install, my programmer did. I'll have him register and point him to this thread so he can give you the details.

[Palmer]

For some reason he couldn't get access to post in this this thread so here is his question...

Palmer, it looks like this is an easy fix. All we have to do is delete the current Impex group and the people will be assigned to the regular “Registered Users” group. I guess this is a normal occurrence with Impex since you might not always want to automatically assign people to the parallel groups.


Before we do this, I have a question for Steve and the login you gave below didn’t work for me. Can you check that? Basically I want to know if when you delete the usergroup “Impex – Elite Member” does that appropriately get assigned to “Elite Member” or does it get assigned by default to “Registered Users.” We may need to manually reassign a couple of the people (the ones that aren’t in the “Impex – Registered Users” group). I can do this tomorrow when I come in.

For reference, here’s what the manual says:

User groups

Most importers will import the usergroups or create a default import usergroup, this is so you can check the users being imported and manage them accordingly, to move users to the default Registered Users group in vBulletin, delete the import group they are in and all the users will be moved to the Registered Users group by default.

Even with a vBulletin to vBulletin import the groups are created again, this is so you can manage the new users accordingly, in some cases you will need to keep the new users separate depending on the nature of your community to manage them.

Mike