Started my conversion to IPB

[Rocket 442]

I've bought a IPB license for FBodyOnline and set up a test site to try out the converter and look for potential problems when I do a final conversion later on. Hopefully in the next couple months after I add my design and some modifications.

[Brandon]

ooo congrats, I see you're members have replied to your "should we switch" thread.

[AWS]

You won't regret it. My users on the site I converted so far didn't even notice we were using new software until I posted the announcement a few days later. I have another site in process and it should be done by the end of next week. If you run into any problems let me know. The first site I imported was slightly larger than yours and the import went well.

[Rocket 442]

You won't regret it. My users on the site I converted so far didn't even notice we were using new software until I posted the announcement a few days later. I have another site in process and it should be done by the end of next week. If you run into any problems let me know. The first site I imported was slightly larger than yours and the import went well.

Thanks for the offer. Might have to take you up on it if I find any problems.

 

I installed a test run and imported everything and it went well. Only problems I had were that I had about 100 of this error:

 

(PM MAP) No user ID link could be found

[Brandon]

That's odd that some PM's synced up with the users, and some didn't.

 

Do you ever delete users?

[kaambiz]

I haven't had that issue but some of members say number of their PMs are shown as sent to "DELETED MEMBER" :P .

[Rocket 442]

Well I can't seem to figure the PM issues out.

 

I've personally looked and had a few members look and no ones PM's are transferring. I try to reimport them again and the same thing. There was only about 20 of the error, but none of the PM's have been added to the site.

 

One other question, where do I go to import vB album photos to the Invision Community Pages plugin?

[kaambiz]

Well I can't seem to figure the PM issues out.

 

I've personally looked and had a few members look and no ones PM's are transferring. I try to reimport them again and the same thing. There was only about 20 of the error, but none of the PM's have been added to the site.

 

One other question, where do I go to import vB album photos to the Invision Community Pages plugin?

regarding the gallery: I think you imported users successfully so you can import albums now. Just start a new conversion and choose Invision Community Pages.

[AWS]

I ran into the PM problem on the last site I just finished. When you delete a user in vbulletin it doesn't clear out the PM'S. Then when you try to import them the import script doesn't know what to do with the PM'S from the deleted users. I posted that all PM'S would not be imported on the final run and that the users should save them if they want to keep them. I then did the final import and did not import PM'S. I don't know if this is a bug in the import script or a fault with the way vbulletin deletes users.

[Rocket 442]

Thanks AWS. Bummer that it seems I can't get it working. Did you talk to IPB about it and that is what they suggested?

[Chris]

Hi Guys,

 

When I did my import from vBulletin 3.8 to IPB, one issue I had was that the user's birthdates all became public info.

 

So the minute I opened up the converted board I got a message from one of my users asking for me to remove his birthdate from public view.

 

IPB doesn't really doesn't use the birthdate field, (although I wish they would) so there is no way to stock way to stop it from displaying.

 

I also couldn't configure the member list not to display birthdates either, (which isn't the best) so what I did was disable the member list for all but admins and moderators.

 

Personally, I wish IPB would change to vBulletin's system of using the birthdate field for sign ups.

 

-Chris

[el canadiano]

Well you can't always expect a perfect conversion. The fact IPB can convert passwords is great.

[AWS]

Thanks AWS. Bummer that it seems I can't get it working. Did you talk to IPB about it and that is what they suggested?

No I didn't. I thought it was more of a problem with deleting users within vbulletin and didn't really expect IPB to code around a short coming in the vbulletin software itself.

[MattM]

Hi Guys,

 

When I did my import from vBulletin 3.8 to IPB, one issue I had was that the user's birthdates all became public info.

 

So the minute I opened up the converted board I got a message from one of my users asking for me to remove his birthdate from public view.

 

IPB doesn't really doesn't use the birthdate field, (although I wish they would) so there is no way to stock way to stop it from displaying.

 

I also couldn't configure the member list not to display birthdates either, (which isn't the best) so what I did was disable the member list for all but admins and moderators.

 

Personally, I wish IPB would change to vBulletin's system of using the birthdate field for sign ups.

 

-Chris

I can make an option to allow the member to hide their birthday. I'll have a think about that.

[MattM]

I ran into the PM problem on the last site I just finished. When you delete a user in vbulletin it doesn't clear out the PM'S. Then when you try to import them the import script doesn't know what to do with the PM'S from the deleted users. I posted that all PM'S would not be imported on the final run and that the users should save them if they want to keep them. I then did the final import and did not import PM'S. I don't know if this is a bug in the import script or a fault with the way vbulletin deletes users.

I'll chat with Mark, our conversion guy, and see what we can do.

[AWS]

Matt, it's wasn't really a problem. I don't think you should have to code a work around when it is clearly a problem with vbulletin itself. When you delete a user it turns all posts into guest posts. IPB handles that. The PM's however remain in the system still attached to the deleted user id. This is the only place in the DB that the deleted username and id are present and there is no way of knowing if the account was removed. To fix the problem you would have to recreate the user which in itself would cause other problems. Duplicate names being possible as one.

 

What you should do is add a note that if users were deleted that there is a possibility the PM import might not work as expected. To me not importing PM's is the best way to go. Most users save them when they should be deleting them. Maybe add a feature to IPB that will delete PM's after x amount of days.