By David Latapie on

Hello fellow Drupallers!

Because there is no importer for MyBB, I am in the process of manually importing every single thread of my previous forum on Drupal. This is very time-consuming, and dates are lost.

In order to make it bit faster, I would like to be able to change the user name of for a given post without having to log in with the said account.

Any idea on how to do it ?

Thank you.

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narayanis’s picture

narayanis commented

There is an author field on every node; it's a find-as-you-type field and will put the post under the account you choose. As an administrator you should have access to that field.

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David Latapie commented

I see this field, but it is not editable: all I see is the name I am connected as, but no option for changing (there is a link which send me to the user's profile, that's all). I'm using user#1, which should have any privileges, regardless of what is checked or not the access rights page (I did checked everything, just in case I'd be wrong).

Something I missed?

sagar ramgade’s picture

sagar ramgade commented

I wouldn't prefer the manual way, i would rather use node import module to import data from a csv file
check this :
http://drupal.org/project/node_import

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David Latapie commented

I don't trust this method. Plus, the page says it won't work for forums.

Thanks anyway for the proposal. The time you spent in trying to find an answer is truly appreciated (no sarcasm here:)).

sagar ramgade’s picture

sagar ramgade commented

There are lot of methods for this, you can use a csv file or sql file from phpmyadmin to import data, however for this you should be aware of tables in which you need to import the data.
I prefer using phpmyadmin and ms excel to import millions of nodes and users.

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David Latapie commented

The Masquerade seems to be exactly what I am looking for: not only I canpost under a different account, but I can simulate being this account, which is great for development. Hurray!

Thanks anyway to those who answered my post.