I am sure this is an obvious extension of this module; but figured i should add a feature request just to keep track.

Would REALLY be nice if this could handle selecting which nodes to export and then import all at once. Not sure where best to add UI for export, possibly just an option in the admin/content/node form under the Update Options (which isn't the best name in this case).

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danielb commented

How do you imagine the export form working? Maybe picking a view or something.

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liquidcms commented

as i suggested in the initial post; i think the std admin/node/content form would be ideal please for this - except for the fact that this function kinda sucks as it is (Dr5, haven't checked it out yet in Dr6).

you could just check which ones you want and then pick new task from pulldown to execute export.

another ideal UI idea for this would be to add it as an action that could be then called from View Bulk Operation - for those not familiar with this amazing module; it provides a new views view type (maybe this is where you were going with your views idea). It adds checkboxes beside all the items in your table view and gives the ability to execute an action (new "export" action in this case) to all the items checked in that view. With exposed filters this is a much more powerful solution than the std admin/content/node.

I'll mention this idea to my client (NY Times/About.com) to see if they'd be interested in having me do a ptch to your module to add the action for use with VBO.

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danielb commented

If you can develop and need it for your clients I would suggest you do, as it may be a couple weeks until I get to look at this.
I think your idea of using the admin/node/content form is excellent, despite the usability of the form itself - it is the stock standard interface for viewing lists of nodes.

I believe the way the current export works is that it creates an array of nodes to export - containing only one node. And then when the import happens, it grabs the array and does current() on it to pull the first and only node out.

Obviously this could be the foundation of how to export/import multiple nodes. I had just never thought of how to 'choose' multiple nodes.

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danielb commented

By the way I think with http://drupal.org/project/node_import you can do mass node imports from CSV, and with http://drupal.org/project/views_bonus you can save a view of nodes as CSV.... so... maybe you could look into that...

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danielb commented

I have added support to the drupal 6 version of the module to export bulk nodes from the admin/content/node page. I suggest if you want to be a pro and use Views - look at the 2 modules I suggested above and use the CSV method instead of Node Export.

Sorry it will be harder to do with drupal 5 so lets see how it goes with drupal 6 first.

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danielb commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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