I'm made a custom content type, which I use as book. However, if I arrive at step 4 of an import run, there are no Book outline options for assigning table columns to the book node.

So I started testing with the regular Book page-type, and there, the book ourline does show up at step 4.
However, at step 7, the module does not accept my book: "Input error: Title is not allowed for Book (not a book)."

If tried to manually make bookpage "Title" to satisfy that demand. But to no avail.
Im planning to import a looot of pages, and assumed that i could just import book pages, assigning the proper parents, and the structure would then just come?

Attached is an error report from when I tried to import my custom content type (with actually no additional fields)

Am I missing somethnig obvious?

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node_import-node_book-13.txt22.46 KBeiland

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eiland’s picture

eiland commented
Version: 6.x-1.0-rc4 » 6.x-1.x-dev

same in devel version.

jsgammato’s picture

jsgammato commented

I am stuck here too -
I have a tsv file with content form three books. The titles of the three books are in column 3. The three books exist already, with no child pages - the imported nodes are ot be the child pages (with no other hierarchy).
Under Book outline I select Column 3 for my book. There is no parent.

When I break the tsv file into three files and then skip trying to map the book title, it seems to work OK.

Why does it think my column 3 content is not a book, when the books exist and the titles exactly match the content in column 3?

JohnTarr’s picture

JohnTarr commented

I'm having the same issue. Any content type in Drupal can be used as a book. It would be extremely helpful to be able to set Book, Parent Item and weight options for all content types, not just Book Page.

Does anybody have a workaround for this? I tried importing my nodes as a Book page and converting content types with Node Convert, but when converting away from Book page, the nodes lose their outline (http://drupal.org/node/895566) . Views Bulk Operations does not have any book outline options. And I don't know enough about the database structure to manually add the information with phpMyAdmin.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

julianmancera’s picture

julianmancera commented

Good day,

Did you find any solutions for this?

Regards,

Julian Mancera