I'm replacing a Joomla! system with NA and wanted to know if anyone had any advice on importing articles in mass?  I'd love to not have to hand enter these.

Dax

digNuke, www.dignuke.com has a really awesome module that works with News Articles, among other modules.  It allows interfacing via Windows Live Writer.  Using some of the free plugins for WLW, you can bring in your Joomla articles and save them out as drafts.  Their plugin, digmeta will allow you to post them in mass.  Images, custom formating, anything you want to go along with them!

I've been testing a demo and I can post a long preformated article in seconds compared to waiting for DNN to keep posting back.  Check it out!

It also does Blog & text/HTML modules as well as some others.  You can archive your old content on your workstation as you update your text/HTML modules with new content.  They have interfaces for some other modules also and are working on releasing several others in the near future.  This is a brand new release from them.

D

Sorry to hijack the post, but would there be much setup to digmeta if you wanted to use NA as a blog for a large user base?  Would each user have to be setup, or just that instance of NA? i.e. - is it setup per module instance or per user?

Thanks!
Steve

I'm sure you'll like it and it works with the rotate module as well.

As to setting up for multiple users?  You install the module in one location on your portal and it opens an access port for the whole portal, subject to the configuration settings you give it.  Each different module type uses a different plugin for interpetation.  You create a different portal link for each module/type.  Example:  each blog instance would need a different link setup; each news module also.   The exception to this is that the text/HTML module has the option of one setup to access all copies of the module in the portal.  In each setup configuration, there are settings to allow how has access and at what level, by user or role.  So, in your blog instance where you have multiple users, you can enable an entire class of user if you desire.  They use the url link for that configuration of that module (each different module/configuration gets a different url) with their DNN portal username and password.  It's really slick!

And WLW has some really awesome plugins out and they are FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!  In fact, someone has even come up with a mod that allows you to make WLW mobile on say a flash drive.  Myself, I'm working on a "portable" cookie that can be used by agents so that they can stay logged in while they work and don't have to save their cookie on an office or public machine when they are out.  That will be followed by a mobile access subsite.

Good Luck!

D

One instance of digMeta per portal is all that is needed of any module you desire to manage on the portal. It can be located anywhere and opens the metablogapi to the portal.  Preferrably, you will put it on an admin page that isn't visable or set it as not visible to anyone but you.

Then, you go into the settings of that module and setup a configuration for each module in the portal you desire to post to via WLW, with the exception of text/HTML modules where you have an option to select some or all of the modules per configuration (so, theoretically you could authorize joe to modify text/HTML instances abc, cindy to do def, and you to do all of them.)

So, in your case, you would go into the instance and activate the link for the ventrian module instance.  Then you authorize which specific users are able to blog/edit or which roles and it takes care of the rest.  Yes, one instance, authorize all the users you want and digMeta, WLW, and DNN will take care of the rest.

You could set it up in about 5 minutes!  All you need to make available to the users is the api url that the module creates and DNN security handles the rest.

D