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Transferring Showcase Data To New Forum

Discussion in 'Showcase Support' started by Gary Gannon, Oct 3, 2013.

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  1. Oct 3, 2013 #1
    Gary Gannon

    Gary Gannon New Member Showcase

    Is it possible to transfer showcase data to a new forum?

    We are importing the users into the new forum and I would like to maintain all of the showcase, but it appears that might not be possible.

    Any suggestions?
     
  2. Oct 3, 2013 #2
    Bob

    Bob Developer Staff Member

    Define New forum. Is it a BLANK SLATE forum with NO Data? or is it an existing forum with existing members, threads, attachments etc that you are using the xf 1.2 to xf 1.2 importer to MERGE two forums?
     
  3. Oct 3, 2013 #3
    Gary Gannon

    Gary Gannon New Member Showcase

    Blank slate. The first import will be from the current forum with the showcase.

    I have installed showcase on the new forum and mimicked all settings, categories, etc.
     
  4. Oct 3, 2013 #4
    Bob

    Bob Developer Staff Member

    Then it should be fairly easy. Install showcase on the NEW site. Then export the data from all the showcase tables on the old site into the new site. I believe the importer SHOULD bring over the attachments. You'll have to rebuild showcase thumbs regardless. You'd need to handle the showcase stuff before importing a 2nd forum of any kind tho.
     
  5. Oct 3, 2013 #5
    Bob

    Bob Developer Staff Member

    Options would be fine, however, Categories will need to be replaced by the actual data from the category table on the existing site.
     
  6. Oct 3, 2013 #6
    Gary Gannon

    Gary Gannon New Member Showcase

    Ok, since the importer I guess does not bring over the showcase tables I have to do that manually I assume.
     
  7. Oct 3, 2013 #7
    Bob

    Bob Developer Staff Member

    Yes, you'll have to manually export/import the showcase tables (they are all xf_nflj_showcase_tablename)

    xf_nflj_showcase_category
    xf_nflj_showcase_comment
    xf_nflj_showcase_custom_field
    xf_nflj_showcase_custom_field_value
    xf_nflj_showcase_item
    xf_nflj_showcase_item_read
    xf_nflj_showcase_item_view
    xf_nflj_showcase_item_watch
    xf_nflj_showcase_rate_review
     
  8. Oct 3, 2013 #8
    Gary Gannon

    Gary Gannon New Member Showcase

    Any idea on this?

    Mysqli prepare error: Unknown column 'category.rate_review_system' in 'where clause'

    1. Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli->_prepare() in Zend/Db/Statement.php at line 115
    2. Zend_Db_Statement->__construct() in Zend/Db/Adapter/Mysqli.php at line 381
    3. Zend_Db_Adapter_Mysqli->prepare() in Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php at line 478
    4. Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query() in XenForo/Model.php at line 219
    5. XenForo_Model->fetchAllKeyed() in NFLJ/Showcase/Model/Item.php at line 106
    6. NFLJ_Showcase_Model_Item->getItems() in NFLJ/Showcase/ControllerPublic/Index.php at line 155
    7. NFLJ_Showcase_ControllerPublic_Index->actionModular() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 337
    8. XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 134
    9. XenForo_FrontController->run() in /data/www/forum.gamebreakernation.com/index.php at line 13
    It also appears that the attached images may not have moved over along with them. I am in the process of downloading them and then uploading to the new server. Could this error be in relation to that?
     
  9. Oct 3, 2013 #9
    Bob

    Bob Developer Staff Member

    That would indicate a mismatch of Showcase versions...

    'category.rate_review_system' was introduced in the most recent version (SC 1.3.0). If you installed SC 1.3.0 on the new site and the old site is running 1.2.x, you will need to upgrade the old site first.

    Might have to export the data manually from the xf_attachment and xf_attachment_data tables where content_type = showcase_item. Do you know how to do that? also might have to copy over the raw images from the data directories.

    Again, I've never DONE this, but in theory, it should work. I've clones dozens of my own DEV environments, by doing it.
     
  10. Oct 4, 2013 #10
    Gary Gannon

    Gary Gannon New Member Showcase

    Alright so doing as you said got it all working and showing and attached to peoples accounts, but now a new issue. When people go to add a new item it seems that are getting this:

    [​IMG]

    And the ADMIN CP shows me this:

    Error Info
    ErrorException: copy(/data/www/forum.gamebreakernation.com/data/showcase/1/1136-2cc90d5ec30e59d5477f864b0377a0b7.jpg): failed to open stream: Permission denied - library/NFLJ/Showcase/DataWriter/AttachmentData.php:61
    Generated By: Kendall Lawliet, 59 minutes ago
    Stack Trace
    #0 [internal function]: XenForo_Application::handlePhpError(2, 'copy(/data/www/...', '/data/www/forum...', 61, Array) #1 /data/www/forum.gamebreakernation.com/library/NFLJ/Showcase/DataWriter/AttachmentData.php(61): copy('/data/www/forum...', '/data/www/forum...') #2 /data/www/forum.gamebreakernation.com/library/NFLJ/Showcase/DataWriter/AttachmentData.php(36): NFLJ_Showcase_DataWriter_AttachmentData->_copyFile('/data/www/forum...', '/data/www/forum...') #3 /data/www/forum.gamebreakernation.com/library/XenForo/DataWriter/AttachmentData.php(159): NFLJ_Showcase_DataWriter_AttachmentData->_writeAttachmentFile('/data/www/forum...', Array, true) #4 /data/www/forum.gamebreakernation.com/library/XenForo/DataWriter.php(1397): XenForo_DataWriter_AttachmentData->_postSave() #5 /data/www/forum.gamebreakernation.com/library/NFLJ/Showcase/Model/Attachment.php(66): XenForo_DataWriter->save() #6 /data/www/forum.gamebreakernation.com/library/NFLJ/Showcase/ControllerPublic/Attachment.php(150): NFLJ_Showcase_Model_Attachment->insertUploadedAttachmentData(Object(XenForo_Upload), 90) #7 /data/www/forum.gamebreakernation.com/library/XenForo/FrontController.php(337): NFLJ_Showcase_ControllerPublic_Attachment->actionDoUpload() #8 /data/www/forum.gamebreakernation.com/library/XenForo/FrontController.php(134): XenForo_FrontController->dispatch(Object(XenForo_RouteMatch)) #9 /data/www/forum.gamebreakernation.com/index.php(13): XenForo_FrontController->run() #10 {main}
    Request State
    array(3) { ["url"] => string(136) "http://forum.xivnation.com/index.ph...25d270e5ea895c6372&content_type=showcase_item" ["_GET"] => array(3) { ["showcase/attachment/do-upload_json"] => string(0) "" ["hash"] => string(32) "a7d83e2d97d5bc25d270e5ea895c6372" ["content_type"] => string(13) "showcase_item" } ["_POST"] => array(6) { ["Filename"] => string(6) "EZ.jpg" ["_xfNoRedirect"] => string(1) "1" ["_xfToken"] => string(8) "********" ["_xfResponseType"] => string(4) "json" ["_xfSessionId"] => string(32) "d9aec81ada33b2957ffdcc607628754a" ["Upload"] => string(12) "Submit Query" } }
     
  11. Oct 4, 2013 #11
    Bob

    Bob Developer Staff Member

    Permission denied = the /data/showcase directory for showcase thumbs is not writable. needs to be 777.
     
  12. Oct 4, 2013 #12
    Gary Gannon

    Gary Gannon New Member Showcase

    Was just coming in here to say it was solved and was a folder permission issue.
     
  13. Oct 4, 2013 #13
    Bob

    Bob Developer Staff Member

    OK, let me know if there is ANYTHING that doesn't work properly. The only other thing that might be effected is discussion thread association (if thread IDs changed during the migration).
     
  14. Oct 4, 2013 #14
    Gary Gannon

    Gary Gannon New Member Showcase

    I purposely imported that forum first and told it to keep thread IDs to hopefully prevent that, but from what I can see everything is working now, better than I could have hoped for.
     
  15. Oct 4, 2013 #15
    Bob

    Bob Developer Staff Member

    Glad it worked out for ya :) Now at least you know its doable if you ever need to do it again :D
     
  16. Mar 14, 2015 #16
    Travis

    Travis New Member Showcase

    Sorry to bump an old thread, but this is exactly what I need to do right now. How do you export the data from the existing showcase and import it into the new showcase? and is it possible to also copy categories and permissions etc...
     
  17. Mar 14, 2015 #17
    Bob

    Bob Developer Staff Member

    There is no Import/Expert functionality in Showcase. This thread was explaining how to manually do it for a specific situation.

    He was moving and existing XF instance into a FRESH XF instance (so all users data would be the same). This allowed him to install showcase (fresh) on the new site, then simple copy the Showcase Tables from the original XF DB into the NEW XF DB which would contain all the data (category's, items etc). Then rebuild the thumbs. It works like a charm (I've done it several times for my own development instances).

    Where it gets tricky is when you are MERGING an XF site into another XF site and the new site has users. All the OLD users will be getting NEW User Id's which will obviously not MATCH the user_id's stored in showcase tables. The XF to XF import does store MAPPING, however, you'd have to write a custom script to update user_id's in all the showcase tables once you moved them over (and you'd have to disable CRONS related to showcase until after you get ID's sorted. Its not a novice type project (at least, I wouldn't recommend it unless you know what you are doing).

    Moving the data from one db to another can be done in several different ways (depending on how much data you have stored).
     
  18. Mar 14, 2015 #18
    Travis

    Travis New Member Showcase

    Thats ex
    I've moved the data over and will reassign items, thats fine. However, is there a way to completely clear all thread associations? I want to start all of that again
     
  19. Mar 14, 2015 #19
    Bob

    Bob Developer Staff Member

    run these 2 queries..

    update xf_nflj_showcase_item set thread_id = 0;

    update xf_thread set discussion_type = '' where discussion_type = 'showcase' ;
    NOTE: those are 2 single quote ' marks not a double " mark
     
  20. Mar 14, 2015 #20
    Travis

    Travis New Member Showcase

    Where do I run them? Sorry, Am useless at this sort of stuff :(
     
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