Upgrade from nodewords: No data are updated

Did you select any field in 'Fields to import'?

And you didn't enter data manually? Could that mean that data actually was imported, but is not displayed in produced HTML? Can you please check field_data_meta_description, field_data_meta_keyword etc. tables in your database?
And no, I don't think the problem is related to XAMPP

7.x-2.1 had broken import code (my bad). Could you rerun with 2.2 please?

I have reproduced the same here - import looks like it's run, but the data is empty.

I ran the import as follows:

• Enabled 'metatags_quick' and 'metatags_quick_import' modules
• Navigated to admin/config/search/metatags_quick/import ('Upgrade from nodewords' in the menu)
• Selected 'Create fields' as this was from-scratch without any existing configuration
• Selected 'description' and 'keywords' in the 'Fields to import' section (though which fields are selected doesn't matter)
• Submitted form via 'Convert' button

Convert seemingly ran, giving the message...

Converting metatags for 821 nodes
1642 results processed in 9 iterations.

... but no data is contained in either of the field_data_meta_description or field_data_meta_keyword tables.

What version of nodewords do you import from?

I have the exact experience as #9, the import looks like it's running but no data ends up in the tables. I'm using 7.x-2.2 and coming from Nodewords 6.x-1.12-rc1

This is still an issue as of 7.x-2.3

Any direction to help troubleshoot?

So I've done a little investigation into this issue and I have discovered the cause of my problem.

The D6 site I was importing from at one time had the locale module on, even though there was only one language on the site (en). All of the nodes in the node table had language = 'en'.

I tried turning locale back on with my D7 site, but it seems that the field is not translatable for 2 reasons:
1. The field settings declared by the function _metatags_quick_field_attach()

$field = array(
      'field_name' => "meta_$meta_name", 
      'type' => 'metatags_quick', 
      'module' => 'metatags_quick',
      'settings' => array(
        'meta_name' => (isset($known_tags[$meta_name]['meta_name']) ? $known_tags[$meta_name]['meta_name'] : $meta_name),
        'max_length' => variable_get('metatags_quick_default_field_length', 255),
      ), 
      'cardinality' => 1,
    );

do not set 'translatable' to be true.

2. There is no translation handler - the function field_has_translation_handler returns false when called for this field. Note that I have no idea what a field translation handler is or what would provide it. My first guess is that the "Content translation" module might do it, but I didn't test.

Without these requirements in point 1 & 2 above, the available languages for the fields for meta_description and meta_keywords as returned by field_available_languages() comes back as LANGUAGE_NONE (which is a string 'und').

Since the nodes I was trying to import had the language set as 'en', there are no values to save in the function metatags_quick_field_update() because _field_invoke() did recognize 'en' as an available language.

The real bug here and the ultimate result is that only nodes that have 'und' (no language) would be importable by the nodewords upgrade.

Solutions
One hypothetical solution would be to set the field as translatable by default and perhaps then turning on something like the "content translation" module would allow the import to complete.

The solution I utilized was to set all of my nodes languages to 'und' by executing the following query:
UPDATE `node` SET `language` = 'und';
but of course, this is not an acceptable solution if you have nodes in more than one language.

#14: thanks a lot, that's really helping comment!
I will investigate the issue, since I get lot of complaints that import is not working (while it works fine for me)

I try to minimize number of open issues, let's have further discussion at #1386438: Importing from D6 Nodewords fails

This is definitely not a duplicate of the #1386438: Importing from D6 Nodewords fails - the issues are quite different in their nature. I highly recommend leaving them both open and treating them distinctly.

Please try the latest 2.x-dev or forthcoming 2.4 release

I cannot upgrade from nodewords. I am getting this error:

FieldException: Attempt to create field name meta_revisit_after which already exists and is active. in field_create_field() (line 85 of /var/www/hcl/docroot/modules/field/field.crud.inc).

Tried with 7.x-2.7 version and 7.x-2.x-dev version of this module.

working on it right now

Hi,

I've just updated a website from d6 to d7 and I'm not able to update from nodewords. My site is in Spanish (using locale module) the import looks like it's running but only 4 nodes get meta tags. The import says:

Converting metatags for 2723 nodes
5445 results processed in 28 iterations.

SELECT * FROM `field_data_meta_description`

I'm using metatags_quick 7.x-2.7 and I'm coming from nodewords 6.x-1.14

No dblog errors are shown after "import".

Thanks

using #14 and setting all languages to und worked for me.
version metatags_quick 7.x-2.7

luckily my site is only English (before I make it bilingual)

This is an old bug (almost 3 years). In the meantime, multilingual websites administrators will appreciate a note in project page information indicating that upgrade from D6 nodewords is not available for multilingual websites.

D7 reached its EOL back in January 2025, and there is no active release for D7 for this module anymore.
Development or support is not planned for D7. All D7-related issues are marked as outdated in a bunch.