Author Topic: Export -> import from a buggy civicrm to a new one (Read 1072 times)

p.gervaix · August 06, 2012, 02:46:46 am

Hi,
my original civicrm have a major bug with multilingual modules , i can't using it anymore (Tab and other function didn't work).
I have setup a new server with the same configuration (customfields, contact subtype, relation type, etc..) . Now i need to export - import the contacts Data. The actual system is little bit paintfull ( the export function need to separate contact subtype and groups for have all data).
I want to simplify my job, it's possible to export -> import all the contact data in one time?

thx in advance

Fil

xavier · August 06, 2012, 07:26:39 am

Hi,
They are various systems to automate import/export, but they as far as I know, all require to install and configure more stuff, probably not worthwhile.

To make your live slightly less difficult, you could use the old internal id from the broken install as the external id on the new one.

You will still have lots of import/export, but at least you can, once the "main data" is migrated do the following (eg. group)

export all contacts from group a, only internal id.
import the group a, match on external id = column internal id and add them on a new group "a"

rince and repeat

Depending on how many groups/relationship you have, might be worthwhile writing a custom script or investigate things like drupal migrate (eileen wrote a blog post about it) or

https://github.com/totten/yass

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