I am jumping into a project that might benefit from Advanced Forum. One lingering question for me before I proceed relates to future migration options, should the project's requirements change. How easily is it currently to export and import posts, discussion threads or entire forums? Due to the very fluid nature of the project, at some point I may be required to migrate forum content from Advanced Forum to vBulletin, or from vB to AF depending on the timing.

For all I know, this kind of flexibility may already exist. I'm not very familiar with the architecture of Advanced Forum, so I opted to not create this as a feature request. Thanks in advance.

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michelle
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Status: Active » Fixed

AF doesn't have any data storage. It's a wrapper around the core forum module which uses Drupal's node/comment system. I believe there is a vBulletin to Drupal importer but I don't think there is anything going the other direction.

Michelle

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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juan_g commented

A new handbook page is How to migrate from many different forum systems.

Drupal has a module (vbtodrupal) to import from vBulletin, and vBulletin has a module to import from Drupal (4.7 only, it would probably need modification for current Drupal versions).

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juan_g commented

See also the new documentation page Importing your forums and users into Advanced Forum.

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Thanks for the docs, juan_g.

Michelle