I downloaded this module to do a complete export of all nodes on a site that I'm shutting down, and ran into a brick wall so hard I think I broke my nose :)

1. I can't do a bulk export from the core content screen, because I can't select all nodes from that screen.
2. I can't do a bulk export from the views override content screen, because node export isn't a VBO option.
3. I can't do a bulk export from the node export tab, because it only works for that node (expected).
4. Features is not an appropriate way to perform this export.
5. I can't find any (official) documentation for performing this export using drush.

I finally found some threads that gave me a general idea of how to do an XML export over drush, but I couldn't find anything to do a CSV export.

Can I suggest that this module have an option on it's configuration page to download an export of all nodes? Seems like it would be a fairly common need, but I could be wrong on that.

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xeraseth commented

I can verify that

2. I can't do a bulk export from the views override content screen, because node export isn't a VBO option.

is true. With Node Export(7.x-3.0-rc3) and Views Bulk Operation(7.x-3.0-rc1) modules active I am not getting a VBO option of exporting (when configuring the view field for Bulk operations: Content).

I will try the dev version of each.

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danielb commented

You can do it with Drush or VBO, but exporting more than a couple dozen nodes at once is likely to crash the import anyway due to typical resources available to PHP.
VBO support was not present in rc3 though, you'll need a newer version.

There is an open issue about adding batching to handle larger export and imports, however it is planned to not do anything about this in 7.x-3.x
#1289754: Add batch support

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danielb commented

I finally found some threads that gave me a general idea of how to do an XML export over drush, but I couldn't find anything to do a CSV export.

In the lastest versions CSV is called DSV, so surely it's a case of configuring Node Export's DSV according to your own CSV specs (the default is good for windows users), and then either making that the only available format on the site, or adding a parameter in the Drush command to specify DSV. This module provides Drush help and usage examples via Drush. Don't ask me how to get to it though.

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danielb commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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

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decade commented

I also can't seem to find export as an option in my VBO prepackaged view. Can anyone shed light on this issue?

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lorenz commented
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same problem here: no export option in view bulk settings.

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lorenz commented

Sorry, please ignore my comment #7: there is no export option because my view uses files via file entity and media module which cannot be exported by this module.

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Jance commented

@decade, not sure if this is still and issue for you, but if you head over to admin/config/content/node_export and make sure you have a "Format to use when exporting a node" selected. Nothing will show up in VBO if there one of the formats isn't selected.

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j4 commented

Hi I have both xml and DSV selected as formats, i still dont see an option to export in VBO in the content page. Would sincerely appreciate any help.

Edited: I went into the vbo view and added the node export options and was then able to use it. Hope this helps someone!

Thanks
Jaya

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web226 commented
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@j4 thanks, your solution in #10 worked perfectly.