Posted by JBstrikesagain on December 25, 2010 at 6:20am
Hi, I am trying to migrate about 160 users from a mailman mailing list to my new site.. I can't find anything searching drupal.org that would allow me to input a list of email addresses and register them all. Would I have to script this myself?
JB
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Import
You probably want either http://drupal.org/project/user_import or http://drupal.org/project/migrate
A fairly simple approach is to format your data into a CSV and then import that.
Ken Winters
User Import looks like
User Import looks like exactly what I want.. and if I wanted to import the archives of the old mailing list I could use Migrate to do that too.
Thank you so much, my search strings were not bringing this up.
TriDUG++
User Import
I used that about 2 years ago, worked exactly like I wanted it to. Imported a CSV, matched up profile fields, sent out account notifications to users.
Searching
If you're having a hard time searching for modules, try Google with site:drupal.org and the word module in the search string.
Ken Winters
Good idea. I had been just
Good idea. I had been just using drupal.org built in search
is there any way for
is there any way for automating the registration process??
i mean without the matching field step, always fields in my case will have the same name
Use stored settings
When you do the import, you can opt to save the settings as a template. Once you've done this, then you just upload the csv file and select the stored settings template.
If your asking about having a way to check for a cvs file and automatically import it, I don't think that is part of the module. There is some cron support but that seems to be for uploading large user sets.
However, you might do a search in the user_import issues with the keyword "cron". There may be a patch or workaround listed there.
solution for Drupal 7?
...was really happy to find this node, because I've the same aim:
A mass user registration.
But my problem now is: I'm using Drupal 7 and User Import isn't supporting this version!
So any suggestions how to do this with v7 ?
Feeds
Try the Feeds module. I haven't used it with D7 for this yet, but in D6 it is easy to import users from a CSV file.
Mass register users in 7.x -> User Import Framework
Thanks for that good hint! obviously a powerful tool...
but for my needs I could find a more specific, simple-fine module:
User Import Framework