some questions on how users will be imported [#626620]

Hi I have a mature Drupal and a mature phpBB, each with several dozen active users.

Some people have an account on both sites.

Here are the possibilities:
1. same person, same username, same email
2. same person, different usernames, same email
3. same person, same username, different emails
3. same person, different usernames, different emails

Your documentation explains how #1 is handled. #4 I can guess will be handled by creating a new user.

How will #2 and #3 be handled?

Thanks very much!

Comments

Comment #1

NaheemSays CreditAttribution: NaheemSays commented 8 November 2009 at 16:25

#3 (the first #3) should be the same as #1 too.

If there are only a few such users, what you may want to do it pre populate the phpbb2drupal_temp_user tablke with their details so that their user accounts will NOT be imported again, and all the posts anf forum topics will be added to the mapped account in that table.

You may wish to experiment a bit on a copy of the site to see what happens, and then make adjustments as necessary.

for #2 - at some point, there would have been an error, however with Drupal 6, I am unsure but I think the user account is created. If it isn't, there will be an error message shown telling you.

#4 will be a a new account, unless you prepopulate the data in the phpbb2drupal table that will tell it to not import that acount, and to map the data to a different account.