I am migrating from an independent company who has hosted and run our site through a proprietary CMS, since years before I was hired to this task. The CMS is proprietary, so I can't import the database into Drupal.
Now I am stuck, because I have been able to migrate everything but the user-created content (such as forums, photo galleries, etc.).
My idea was to use their database to create a CSV of all the members and their information, then import it using User Import. That would be successful if not for two factors:
1) I have no access to user passwords (as deemed by this company's privacy policy), which means I will have to import the users and have the system email out the welcome message which creates those passwords.
2) Upon sending out that email to some 15,000 people, they will flood to the site to find it still in development.
Is there a way to import my users, have their new passwords handy, and suspend the mass email from delivering this same information in the welcome message?
AND/OR
Is there also a way to switch users or create them on the fly while keeping password intact upon user import?
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I wonder if two user imports
I wonder if two user imports could happen, one in which the welcome email is not sent out, and the next in which it is, but the one-time login link still works.
I would still need to be able to log in as the user though, which means I would have to obtain their password (or change it beforehand), and hope the one-time login link in the welcome email works.
I believe the last time I
I believe the last time I used the user_import module this was already a feature. You do not need to activate users on import.
It's been a while for me, but
It's been a while for me, but I just noticed this as well. User Import allows you to disable emails if you want, and then overwrite user information on new imports.
I am testing this now.
In the meantime, I still need a way to see user passwords without having to change them, or hold a temporary session as one of my imported users in order to publish content by them.
it never occured to me to use
it never occured to me to use the "Authoring information" link.
*slaps self upside da head*
Now I'm in business.
The user import doesn't seem
The user import doesn't seem to want to activate a "welcome message" email...
Wonder if there's a way to just send out !username and !password info out to all users?