Imported from SMF - big success, but some small problems

[stobby256]

Hi All,

Just imported from SMF and after a few teething troubles, it all went well. The forum wont be live yet , so I've a while to get it all right.

Things I have a problem with...

1. The forum says 51 threads and 932 posts. When I look at it there's only one on there
2. On some, it says that threads and posts are there, but when I look at them, it says that there have been no postings for 30 days and it appears empty

Questions I need to ask: -

1. When it imports users, and the VB forum goes live, can the users then login with their old (SMF) details?
2. Are all the PMs imported too?
3. How do I import the smilies ?

I know it will not be an exact copy of the SMF forum, and will need a tweak or two. I have to take my hat off to the guys who write al the code, well done.

Thanks in advance to anyone who replies

Steve

[VbulletinItalia.]

Hi All,

Just imported from SMF and after a few teething troubles, it all went well. The forum wont be live yet , so I've a while to get it all right.

Things I have a problem with...

1. The forum says 51 threads and 932 posts. When I look at it there's only one on there
2. On some, it says that threads and posts are there, but when I look at them, it says that there have been no postings for 30 days and it appears empty

Questions I need to ask: -

1. When it imports users, and the VB forum goes live, can the users then login with their old (SMF) details?
2. Are all the PMs imported too?
3. How do I import the smilies ?

I know it will not be an exact copy of the SMF forum, and will need a tweak or two. I have to take my hat off to the guys who write al the code, well done.

Thanks in advance to anyone who replies

Steve

To view all of your posts, you must go to the Admin Panel-Forums&Moderator-> Forum Manager->clic for each forum and GO under the heading "Default View Age (Default cut-off dates for thread display", select "Show all treads" and save. The need to do this procedure for each forum.

For the smilies, you had to enter the folder path at import.

I did not understand the problem "Are all the PMs imported too?"

[stobby256]

Great - thank you!

I did not understand the problem "Are all the PMs imported too?"

I meant are all private messages imported as well?

Thanks

[VbulletinItalia.]

The number of private messages imported into vbulletin are equal to SMF?

[stobby256]

almost I know there will be some things that are not complete so what the hell. My question was are the private messages imported - that's it!

Thanks

[stobby256]

Well that's SORTED !!! Also a question about USERS - all my users are imported OK... but can't login. Do I have to send them all a new password???

[VbulletinItalia.]

Send an email to your users, because they must reset their passwords and to ask a new passowrd SMF coding is different from vbulletin.