Hi Group,
After Saturday's meeting, I've been playing with the Import/Export API for Drupal 5 (5.x-1.1). It's working somewhat; I understand the basics on how to export, add a record to the CSV file, and import back in.
But when I export, I only get the main content type record, and not it's fields. I have a type called "dispatch" and 2 fields "street_name" and "street_no" My resulting CSV file does NOT have the fields (columns) for "street_name" nor "street_no".
Also, the export setup has info about taxonomy (as well as the main content, and revisions) but does not give me any output on the export. The import then asks for a file which I was not able to create. I did learn that if you at least don't have the revision file imported too, you can see the content record, but when you edit it, you get "Page Not Found". I guess the database is lost about some pointers to all the content's data.
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John, I've never used the
John,
I've never used the Import/Export API - the module that I was referring to during the meetup was Node Import.
Based on the description of the Import/Export API module as well as some of the comments in its issue queue, it looks like it is an API in the truest sense of the word - all of the hooks are there, but not all of the functionality. Plus, it looks like the project is close to being abandoned.
-mike
Thanks Mike for the
Thanks Mike for the confirmation. I did find the Node Import module and discovered quickly that is what i wanted!
JCL
JCL