Hi All, Can we able to import content from different Community(not Lithium) in to the Lithium Community and it is possible to get all the View count,Kudos,tag etc.,, in the import. Thanks & Regards,Abhishek

Rest calls will not work because they do not allow youto backdate the content. It indeed has to be written directly to the database which only Lithium Professional Service is capable of doing.

I've done a data migration with PS and I can assure you they are very skilled and won't let you down. All my data was mapped from vbulletin to lithium dataset and 100% moved across.

AbhishekIlindra We imported WordPress blog into Lithium. It's a manual process. 1. Fetch all the records as JSON from the specified platform.2. Manually put that JOSN in Endpoint. 3. Fetch JSON in component and revolve its entry in <#list> and set a synchronized post call inside the list.

Yes, However, you're not able to do this yourself but with the assistance of professional services, they can do this. As part of the engagement with PS you'll have a mapping exercise where every field or row will be mapped from your data export to the fields in the data import. They have done this many times over and will have no doubt done a migration from your system before so may be worth speaking with your account team or raising a ticket with support who can point you in right direction. Thanks

Same limitation and answer as when you are importing from a non-Lithium community: professional service can perform such straight forward database copy. Pretty uncommon scenario though, isn't it? Normally when moving a Lithium community you would simply change the domain it's sitting on.

Import content to Lithium from different Community

VikasB
Boss
8 years ago
Hi ClaudiusH,
Sure, all the post will show their original date. Have a look on attachment. You just need to pass the date with post call.

AbhishekIlindra If you are going to use such type of approach then make sure you are using a sync call otherwise some of the posts may be skipped.
- ClaudiusH
  Khoros Alumni (Retired)
  8 years ago
  Wow. I am a bit surprised since both the Community API v1 call "messages / post" as well as the API v2 CREATE on the message collection according to the documentation do not allow to pass a timestamp.
  
  Would you mind sharing which call you are using?
  - VikasB
    Boss
    8 years ago
    Hi ClaudiusH
    
    Try this one.
    <#assign addBlog = restadmin("blogs/id/${blog_id}/messages/post?message.body=${body?url}&message.subject=${subject?url}&message.author=/users/login/${author}&message.post_date=${post_time?iso('UTC')}") />
    Hope it would be helpful.
- AbhishekIlindra
  Boss
  8 years ago
  VikasB : Is the same approach if we are migrating content in one Lithium community in to different community.
  - VikasB
    Boss
    8 years ago
    AbhishekIlindra Yes, approach would be same. Data(JSON/XML) handling would be easy it can be the plus point if you are having the same platform both side.
VikasB
Boss
8 years ago
AbhishekIlindra
We imported WordPress blog into Lithium. It's a manual process.
1. Fetch all the records as JSON from the specified platform.
2. Manually put that JOSN in Endpoint.
3. Fetch JSON in component and revolve its entry in <#list> and set a synchronized post call inside the list.
- ClaudiusH
  Khoros Alumni (Retired)
  8 years ago
  Vik wrote:
  
  We imported WordPress blog into Lithium. It's a manual process.
  1. Fetch all the records as JSON from the specified platform.
  
  2. Manually put that JOSN in Endpoint.
  
  3. Fetch JSON in component and revolve its entry in <#list> and set a synchronized post call inside the list.
  
  Can you confirm that with that approach all the imported posts will not be shown with their original post date, but the a timestamp on the day the import was performed?
ClaudiusH
Khoros Alumni (Retired)
8 years ago
Same limitation and answer as when you are importing from a non-Lithium community: professional service can perform such straight forward database copy. Pretty uncommon scenario though, isn't it? Normally when moving a Lithium community you would simply change the domain it's sitting on.
Fellsteruk
Boss
8 years ago
Yes,

However, you're not able to do this yourself but with the assistance of professional services, they can do this. As part of the engagement with PS you'll have a mapping exercise where every field or row will be mapped from your data export to the fields in the data import.

They have done this many times over and will have no doubt done a migration from your system before so may be worth speaking with your account team or raising a ticket with support who can point you in right direction.

Thanks
- AbhishekIlindra
  Boss
  8 years ago
  Fellsteruk: Is there any possibility of using Rest calls
  - Fellsteruk
    Boss
    8 years ago
    I wouldn't have thought so and even if there was you'd have a massive amount of work on your hands building a bot or something to process.
    
    My best advice would be to speak with PS for help