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  • Chris Houston 535 posts 980 karma points MVP admin c-trib
    Jul 13, 2010 @ 19:02
    Chris Houston
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    Great package, a quick suggestion :)

    Hi Lee,

    Great package!

    It would be good if you added an item to the context menu so that if you right click a Blog it then has an "Import" option. That way the user does not need to type in the Node ID for the blog.

    Just a small improvement that I think will make your package even more impressive :)

    It's something I thought about building a long time ago and never got around to doing it, I am sure you have just helped a lot of people migrate their blogs to Umbraco, well done!

    Chris

  • Lee 1130 posts 3088 karma points
    Jul 13, 2010 @ 19:19
    Lee
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    Great idea Chris! I'll look at adding that in the next couple of weeks :)

  • Chris Houston 535 posts 980 karma points MVP admin c-trib
    Jul 13, 2010 @ 19:25
    Chris Houston
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    Hi Lee,

    You can find information about how to do this on the Wiki:

    Tree API to create custom tree applications

    Cheers,

    Chris

  • Morten Bock 1867 posts 2140 karma points MVP 2x admin c-trib
    Jul 13, 2010 @ 20:14
    Morten Bock
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    Alternatively, just make it a dropdown that contains the blog nodes from the content tree. Can be problematic when too many packages add stuff to the context menu. It's already quite big.

  • Donald St. Martin 83 posts 128 karma points
    Jul 13, 2010 @ 23:22
    Donald St. Martin
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    This looks like a great package!  I can't wait to test it out on importing all 1,500+ posts.  I was just about to build something like this but it looks like you beat me to it!

  • Jamie Howarth 306 posts 773 karma points c-trib
    Jul 13, 2010 @ 23:32
    Jamie Howarth
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    Fantastic package. I've been waiting to port my archived posts from GeeksWithBlogs.net to my Umbraco build, now I can. Legen- wait for it... dary! :-D

  • Lee 1130 posts 3088 karma points
    Jul 14, 2010 @ 07:19
    Lee
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    Thanks :)  Please let me know how you get on using it.

  • Petr Snobelt 923 posts 1535 karma points
    Jul 14, 2010 @ 12:05
    Petr Snobelt
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    Nice package.

    I agree with Morten Bock, add nodepicker to choose root node instead of modify context menu.

     

  • Rob Birdwell 6 posts 26 karma points
    Jul 16, 2010 @ 20:36
    Rob Birdwell
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    Unable to import BlogML - crashing after clicking "Import Blogs" button.  Our import file does get successfully uploaded to the APP_DATA directory.   We're using Umbraco 4.0.x, ASP.NET 3.5 (2.0 framework) on IIS 6, Windows 2003 Server.

    Here's the stack trace and I can provide the BlogML file if you would like to test with it (it's under 1MB):

    [NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
       BlogML2Blog4Umbraco.usercontrols.blogml.ReturnPostsInList(String fullfilepath) in C:\Users\Lee\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\BlogML2Blog4Umbraco\usercontrols\blogml.ascx.cs:260
       BlogML2Blog4Umbraco.usercontrols.blogml.btnProcessFile_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Users\Lee\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\BlogML2Blog4Umbraco\usercontrols\blogml.ascx.cs:82
       System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) +111
       System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +110
       System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +10
       System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +13
       System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +36
       System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1565

     

    NOTE:  Version 1.2.1 seemed to fix this crash.  All blog posts were imported, albeit, into a single folder.  But that's a very good start!

  • Lee 1130 posts 3088 karma points
    Jul 17, 2010 @ 08:56
    Lee
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    Hmmm ok, I have only tested this on 4.5 but I'll install 4.0.X and test it next week, can you email me your XML to test it with?  lee(the at sign)designagency(dot)co(dot)(uk)

  • Donald St. Martin 83 posts 128 karma points
    Jul 21, 2010 @ 00:11
    Donald St. Martin
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    I am running into issues.  How were you able to export your Wordpress blog in the BlogML format and then get it into Blog4Umbraco?

  • Jamie Howarth 306 posts 773 karma points c-trib
    Jul 21, 2010 @ 00:13
    Jamie Howarth
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    Hey Donald,

    I used RSS2BlogML to move mine to Umbraco 4.5.

    Hope this helps.

    Benjamin

  • Donald St. Martin 83 posts 128 karma points
    Jul 21, 2010 @ 00:38
    Donald St. Martin
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    I am still not having much luck.  I tried to replace the export.php file and I tried using the RSS2BlogML app.  It looked like the export.php didn't make a difference and the app only converted 1 post.  When I tried uploading that file that the app generated, I receive an error "System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

     

    I am running Umbraco 4.5 with Blog4Umbraco_2.0.26_for_4.5

  • Lee 1130 posts 3088 karma points
    Jul 21, 2010 @ 20:48
    Lee
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    Hi Donald

    Please try the updated version (1.2) I have found some BlogML exporters didn't support some attributes - you should not get the 'object not set' anymore.

    Let me know if you still have problems

    Thanks

    Lee

     

  • Donald St. Martin 83 posts 128 karma points
    Jul 22, 2010 @ 17:29
    Donald St. Martin
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    Lee,

    It looks like version 1.2 is working well!  Thanks all for the help! 

    My only issue now is getting my current Wordpress blog to export properly.  I am having to tweak the WordPress BlogML Export 1.0a file.  It is producing some strange things when it exports. 

    --
    Donald

  • Lee 1130 posts 3088 karma points
    Jul 22, 2010 @ 18:33
    Lee
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    Great stuff :)

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