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Nathan Pitman (Nine Four)
Posted: 21 May 2007 01:03 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 19 ]  
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...and although you don’t have this problem because I know you use d.el.ic.io.us (forgive me I can never remember where the dots go so I threw a few extra in for good measure) I think it would be easy to adapt this approach to export the links list from Textpattern and import it into a weblog (section) with custom entry fields. I’m going to give that a shot too and post my results here.

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Posted: 21 June 2007 09:05 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 20 ]  
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Jon and Nathan, thanks for this thread—I’m about to migrate a couple of my Txp sites to EE, and it’s nice to find you two pros leading the way.

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Posted: 22 June 2007 08:33 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 21 ]  
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In case anyone is still supporting the export method.. I tried it and the entries worked fine, but it only imported one comment per article, the first comment.
My export data is here http://www.adventures-in-motherhood.com/export I think everything looks ok, and it imports without a problem, but then most of the comments are missing. can anyone help with this?

thanks!

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Lisa Wess
Posted: 22 June 2007 08:36 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 22 ]  
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Hey, shaz!

Looking at the source of your page, the comments have no dashes between them.  If you compare your export to the official mt import format you’ll note that each comment is separated by

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5 dashes I think that counts as.  There are 0 dashes between yours so it doesn’t know a new comment has begun. I suspect that tweaking that will get you fixed up =)

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Posted: 22 June 2007 08:45 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 23 ]  
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thank you, thank you Lisa!!!! works! smile

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Posted: 22 June 2007 08:56 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 24 ]  
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Glad to hear it =)

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Posted: 26 April 2008 11:11 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 25 ]  
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Thank you for all the details expressed so far in this thread. 

I’m having an issue with the MT Importer Utility however. I’m getting the error “Unable to Import Entries”, and I traced this to the code starting at line 814 of cp.mt_import.php which states that “At Least One Field Must Be Used”.

If the MT import posts don’t have categories, should “-none-” be selected?  I’ve tried a great number of combinations of settings without any luck.

Perhaps I’m looking at this the wrong way.  Any help here would be greatly appreciated!!

The file I’m attempting to import looks like this:
TITLE: Title
AUTHOR: striderz
DATE: 04/25/2008 02:54:50 PM
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BODY:
test test
test test
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Posted: 26 April 2008 04:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 26 ]  
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Also, from the area of code that is catching the error in my import, what does ${$name} do?  I believe $name just holds a string in this context.

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Posted: 28 April 2008 08:27 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 27 ]  
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I’m still investigating the issue I’m having here.  If anyone has insight into what the portion of code in the section “At Least One Field Must Be Used” in cp.mt_import.php that gives me the error “Unable to Import Entries” is checking for, that should put us in the right direction towards figuring this out.

Also, I’m working with Build:  20080319.  Let me know if there are any other details I can provide that would be useful.

Thanks!

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dreas
Posted: 02 May 2008 11:14 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 28 ]  
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Hi folks -


just wondering if we need to bump this issue over to support?

here are some additional parameters
we have MSM with 2 active sites. all sites reside on the same server.
the server uses Plesk 7.1.1

As you can imagine being able to import entries is key to our migration process..

striderz - 26 April 2008 11:11 AM

Thank you for all the details expressed so far in this thread. 

I’m having an issue with the MT Importer Utility however. I’m getting the error “Unable to Import Entries”, and I traced this to the code starting at line 814 of cp.mt_import.php which states that “At Least One Field Must Be Used”.

If the MT import posts don’t have categories, should “-none-” be selected?  I’ve tried a great number of combinations of settings without any luck.

Perhaps I’m looking at this the wrong way.  Any help here would be greatly appreciated!!

The file I’m attempting to import looks like this:
TITLE: Title
AUTHOR: striderz
DATE: 04/25/2008 02:54:50 PM
——-
BODY:
test test
test test
——-
————
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Paul Cripps (Nine Four)
Posted: 18 August 2008 04:22 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 29 ]  
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@dreas did you get this to work? I get the same problems as you. Great post if it worked.

I know it worked previously, wonder what we missed / or has changed?

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Posted: 18 August 2008 06:01 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 30 ]  
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yes we got it to work….
by completely reinstalling EE. the MSM and then all patches and updates.
and then we imported before activating any modules or plugins…
IOW it was a Maj. PITA

works a charm now. Unfortunately - due to the belt & suspenders approach -I can’t tell you exactly what was causing the issue.

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Posted: 22 August 2008 06:20 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 31 ]  
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O.k I got this to work too, last week.

Not sure quite how I did it… I have a horrible feeling I copied the text from the browser first time. Second time (which worked) I copied the source.

Maybe someone should hand me a wooden spoon!

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Nathan Pitman (Nine Four)
Posted: 20 September 2008 03:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 32 ]  
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Just upgraded my ancient EE install for nathanpitman.com in advance of giving this a proper shot… it’s now or never… wish me luck.

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Posted: 28 February 2009 06:04 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 33 ]  
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Ok, I’ve managed to overcome my final stumbling block with migration from Textpattern to ExpressionEngine. I wanted to persist the article IDs from TXP to EE because they are used in my permalink URLs. Basically I don’t want to break the internet (or my small part of it) by altering the URL structure in the switch.

Here’s what I did.

Open ‘cp.mt_import.php’ form within ‘/system/cp/’ then at line 954 add:

$ids = array();

at about line 1028 add:

// IDs Hack
                if (strpos($parts['0'],'ID') !== false)
                {
                    $ids[$id] = trim(str_replace('ID:','',$first_section[$i]));
                }

At about line number 1765 amend the entry id value to:

'entry_id'               => $ids[$id],

Now save and upload your amended import script. Back in Textpattern you also need to add one new line to the top of your export script.

ID: <txp:article_id />

So your TXP export will now include the original article ID and the import process will maintain this (so long as you have deleted all other weblog entries prior to import).

Happy migrating!!!

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