I’m importing a community forum from vbulletin. And I can’t wait to get it done, because I want to start using discourse pronto. I’ve managed to get the script running and it can import: users, groups, categories, topics (i.e. first posts) and then failed. Because I gave it only read access to my …

[이미지] lrossouw: but again, how do I import said like to discourse. Probably after posts have been imported I need to loop through all the likes/thanks in my database and like the corresponding post on discourse? (Can’t wait for the dislike button to disappear…). You’ll need to create records…

[이미지] lrossouw: I haven’t got to attachments yet, but our forum uses attachments that are stored in the DB it seems. Will this be handled by the script or do I need to make changes? I figured out a neat way to fix this. On the vb forum go to the attachment and switch storage to file based. …

I see the following remaining formatting issues on my transferred forum. That is after the post clean-up scripts ran: Lists tags aren’t fixed [LIST] [*]item 1 [*]item 2 [*]item 3 [/LIST] I guess I should just remove the tags and the brackets round the * and add a space and it should be formatted…

Found a bug & PR on phpBB importer. This seems to also apply to vBulletin also. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/2927

I´ve updated the post_action table and imported our old likes. These are shown in queries, but not in the interface. How do I refresh the interface? Answer: rake user_actions:rebuild

Oh right, the importer should have been calling PostAction.act I think instead of inserting rows. My bad!

Yes I wasn’t going to write the import code. Just did it manually from database to database. Then ran the rake. My ruby is bad.

Veeery late reply here.. but I am in the same situation, care to explain how you moved over the likes?

Some questions on vbulletin import script (groups, likes, attachments)

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Haddoq 4월 30, 2022, 9:48오전 9

너무 늦게 답글을 남기게 되었네요.. 저도 같은 상황인데, 좋아요를 어떻게 이전하셨는지 설명해 주실 수 있을까요?

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Some questions on vbulletin import script (groups, likes, attachments)

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