It really depends on what people are looking for when they import. For those looking at switching over, what do you consider a bare minimum of what needs to be imported? Besides the obvious of categories, forums, users and posts

Good question, sir. Yes, the basics would be good and/or the option to choose what comes over would be best. Mainly and this again is just me/us, I'm interested in upgrading our current UBB board to the latest, then bringing over JUST the posts and forums actually from a vB forum. We're thinking about going from public to more private. We have two boards (one vB) and two different user databases, etc. and I'm thinking about consolidating to just UBB -- but not bring over vB users. We'd keep the posts that are already there and bring in the vB posts as "archives" so to speak. Maybe the vast majority of posts would not have usernames you couldn't click on or use, since we'd hold off on importing them, but at least we'd have everything still.

Hope that makes some sense and helps. Thanks, Rick.

I think that these are requirements:
users
profile data
forums
categories
basic permissions (admin's, mod's)

Then more "percs":
pm's
polls
extended permissions (individual categories)
user titles

Can't expect you to take EVERYTHING into account, something basic to get folks moved in though

Most won't be able to move if their forum is of any size and they have private forums... ever set individual forum permissions on a few thousand people manually?

Yes, with the phpbb importer lol

Is there a latest and greatest on the vB import?

Thanks.

7.2 is almost out of the woodworks, and i believe Rick's planning to re-visit them once final is out.

Yes, as soon as 7.2 is out the door, I'll be back on the vb importer and will get it finished up before working on anything else.

Thanks for the update

Ah. Good to hear and know. Thanks for the update.