Is there a way to copy my Joomla Articles into K2 (other than cut and paste)?

This would be awesome for my existing sites so I can take advantage of K2's awesomeness!

There is an option called "Import Joomla articles" in the k2 dashbooard. Your articles will be copy into K2. Then, you have to hide or delete your Joomla articles.

Doh! - I was afraid I was missing something simple like that.

Thanks!

Why don't I see it?
NVM... just spot it 8)

Dawei said:There is an option called "Import Joomla articles" in the k2 dashbooard. Your articles will be copy into K2. Then, you have to hide or delete your Joomla articles.

Where did you spot it? it's very well hidden from my perspective (i.e. I can't see it either :op )

silveX said:Why don't I see it? NVM... just spot it 8)

Dawei said:There is an option called "Import Joomla articles" in the k2 dashbooard. Your articles will be copy into K2. Then, you have to hide or delete your Joomla articles.

:)

Bingo!

Thanks - took me a while to find it!

Mihael Fugaj said:


:)

Is there any way to limit the import to a particular section/category? I don't want to import ALL 500+ articles, just ones I delineate...

That would be a big huge help...

Are you comfortable with using databases in easyphp? if so then try the following.

backup your database, put the site in maintenance mode (so no one can use it while you do that). Delete the articles you don't want, import the rest, then put the others back into the joomla database?


I found I needed to delete the joomla articles now being used by K2 fairly early on as occasionally the SEO was getting confused.

Carolyn Harris said:Is there any way to limit the import to a particular section/category? I don't want to import ALL 500+ articles, just ones I delineate...
That would be a big huge help...

Well, I am familiar with phpMyAdmin just fine. But - in my Joomla! site I have a news section with 7 categories (separate from my K2 area) and what I have done is this:

My 'old' library was within a phpBB forum. I had to find a way to port those several hundred entries (with their pdf/mp3 attachments) over into Joomla! articles.

So what I want to do is import ONLY those articles (a specific section/category) into K2. I do not want to import all 500+ articles in my new section and various categories as they are just articles, but the entries in my 'old' library are old books (public domain) and documents/papers, et cetera.

What I'm really trying to find is a way to limit the import function to just ONE section/category from the articles made in Joomla! by making them with a nifty plug-in that grabs via RSS any articles somewhere else and publishes them as articles for you in Joomla.

So does anyone know anything I can do in the coding to delineate that, or limit it, or make it so I can choose which section/category to import from?

Any help would be appreciated!

This import tool won't import "Archived" joomla articles, so I was able to import only the categories/sections I wanted into K2 by temporarily archiving everything I didn't want imported, running the import tool, then going back to the Joomla articles and unarchiving them. It worked perfectly for me!

Carolyn Harris said:Is there any way to limit the import to a particular section/category? I don't want to import ALL 500+ articles, just ones I delineate...
That would be a big huge help...

Thank you, Renee!! I did that and it worked pretty well, even imported the attachments!

I'm going to post in the feature requests that somewhere in the code that we are given the option to choose from which section/category to import articles. That would be really, really handy for those of us with large sites that are not completely K2-driven.

Is there a way this process could be done regularly and automatically, and without getting more than one copy of an article into K2? This would be a way to work around the current limitations of XML-RPC plugins which can get externally sourced content into a Joomla category, but not into K2 directly.

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Regards Christina Cherry said:

Thanks - took me a while to find it!
Mihael Fugaj said:



:)