Web Wiz Support and Community Forums : Importing Member Data from another board https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:55:48 +0000 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:36:21 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=22442 <![CDATA[Web Wiz Support and Community Forums]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ <![CDATA[Importing Member Data from another board : Sort of, I had told them all what...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/importing-member-data-from-another-board_topic22442_post119590.html#119590 Author: Melkor
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Posted: 19 January 2007 at 5:36pm

Sort of, I had told them all what to do and where to go to get their new passwords and let them find it themselves. It worked flawlessly for the most part, but there are always those who choose not to read despite the instructions being post in +1 in every forum on the site.
]]> Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:36:21 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/importing-member-data-from-another-board_topic22442_post119590.html#119590 <![CDATA[Importing Member Data from another board : Melkor wrote:I just did a batch...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/importing-member-data-from-another-board_topic22442_post119551.html#119551 Author: JasonHombre
Subject: 22442
Posted: 19 January 2007 at 9:50am

Originally posted by Melkor Melkor wrote:

I just did a batch import of 80,000 members and it went pretty well. I made an announcement on the forums 2 weeks letting members know they would have to request a new password when the switch was made through the "forgotten password" link.

I think out of 80,000 members, only 20 or so had a problem and that was easy to manually fix.

Just make sure they have current email addresses in their profiles.
 
Again, thanks so much for this - so to manage these users, you simply directed them straight to the forgotten password page yeah?  Like, did you hide any of the other web wiz functionality during the conversion period or just open the board up straight away? 
]]> Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:50:08 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/importing-member-data-from-another-board_topic22442_post119551.html#119551 <![CDATA[Importing Member Data from another board : dj air wrote:if the passwords...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/importing-member-data-from-another-board_topic22442_post119550.html#119550 Author: JasonHombre
Subject: 22442
Posted: 19 January 2007 at 9:48am

Originally posted by dj air dj air wrote:

if the passwords are not encrypted then you can encrypt the same passwords

the bigger issue is the forum content, but that depends on the set up within the database. it can be done if two tables and use a loop to sort the import and the primary keys.


 
thanks for this - very useful.  Just a couple of questions back:
 
- when you say about encrypting the same passwords - how would you do that in a batch?  Like, does Web Wiz use a common encryption method? 
 
- for the existing content - both my topics and messages have and AutoNumber field named 'ID' as primary keys - could you possibly just go in to how you would write a loop to bring them across?  I'm not a VB scripter you see.
]]> Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:48:04 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/importing-member-data-from-another-board_topic22442_post119550.html#119550 <![CDATA[Importing Member Data from another board : I just did a batch import of 80,000...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/importing-member-data-from-another-board_topic22442_post119535.html#119535 Author: Melkor
Subject: 22442
Posted: 18 January 2007 at 9:13pm

I just did a batch import of 80,000 members and it went pretty well. I made an announcement on the forums 2 weeks letting members know they would have to request a new password when the switch was made through the "forgotten password" link.

I think out of 80,000 members, only 20 or so had a problem and that was easy to manually fix.

Just make sure they have current email addresses in their profiles.
]]> Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:13:17 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/importing-member-data-from-another-board_topic22442_post119535.html#119535 <![CDATA[Importing Member Data from another board : if the passwords are not encrypted...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/importing-member-data-from-another-board_topic22442_post119532.html#119532 Author: dj air
Subject: 22442
Posted: 18 January 2007 at 8:31pm

if the passwords are not encrypted then you can encrypt the same passwords

the bigger issue is the forum content, but that depends on the set up within the database. it can be done if two tables and use a loop to sort the import and the primary keys.


]]> Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:31:14 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/importing-member-data-from-another-board_topic22442_post119532.html#119532 <![CDATA[Importing Member Data from another board : Hi All - I&#039;m just setting...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/importing-member-data-from-another-board_topic22442_post119530.html#119530 Author: JasonHombre
Subject: 22442
Posted: 18 January 2007 at 7:17pm

Hi All - I'm just setting up Web Wiz forum V. 8.0 on a site that used to have another board running on it.  The old board is called Boardless and is very old.  Thing is we've got about 400 members on the old board that I'd like to import in to Web Wiz; plus around 300 topics and 4000 messages.

I think I'm happy porting the topics and messages but the members...

Has anyone ever batch-imported members?  I can see the main issue being setting an encrypted password for each of them that when they log in again they'll still be able to use their old logins.

Any ideas?
 


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