UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 7 Importer Support I have Forums, but I have no Forums...

I just completed the import of all my forums and users. I was primarily concerned with just the forum content because the membership is very small and very understanding about downtime, but there's a wealth of information in the 5 years of posts which everyone would like to maintain.

I performed a fresh install of V7 (Linux) and copied over the entire Apache2 folder from my previous server (Windows) for the import. The importer worked well, spending lots of time working on the members and forums and completed with no errors. When I go to the control panel of the new forum, everything looks good, with my 20 members, 13 Forums and ~9000 posts, which is about what I remember.

But, if I go to the "Total Forums" link in CP or simply go to the Forum Home, the system tells me that I don't have any forums. This is accompanied by a "We Cannot Proceed" message and window title. The Members are all there, however, and I can "become" them and look at my profile, etc.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'm at a loss.

Dirk

This sounds like maybe nobody is assigned to be able to read any forums. Try going into Group Management and then click on the Group Access tab. This will allow you to see if any groups have any read permissions to any of the forums. It may be that you'll need to set the permissions for each forum so the users group has read access.

Would that cause me not to be able to see any Forums in the Control Panel? I went into Group Access and found the usual groups, checked their boxes and clicked "Update" with no change.

This is my first experience with V7 and so I'm not sure what other things might not be looking right, but this seems strange.

Dirk

If you're not seeing any forums there may be some other issues. Can you send me a PT here with the url and admin info for your forum so I can do a few sql queries?

I have the same problem (which I posted before realizing that this topic was already being discussed).

Rick ... do you want me to send you my URL and admin info too?

I've been importing for the past 1.5 hours, but don't see any forums being created either... granted, for this test, I didn't start with a clean slate, but still... no forums created.

Edit: To clarify: Yes, they are being created in the Db, but they're not showing up in the CP nor the board itself...

Yes, if you have this problem send me the url and admin info please in a PT.

Ok, I have yours fixed. It seems for some reason it didn't assign your forums to any category. I had to do a DB query to assign them to the General Discussion forum and then clear the cache and they seem to be dislaying ok now.

Outstanding! Thanks for the help.

Having same problem after doing an import.

Rick, could you post the query, so I can run it?

This *should* fix it:

update ubbt_FORUMS set CATEGORY_ID = '1' where CATEGORY_ID = '' or CATEGORY_ID = '0'

That it did. Thanks much.

I am guessing the problem was that my Classic forum does not have any cats defined and threads wants it to. Or at least the import script did.

Yeah, I think I need to alter the classic import to do this query at the end of the import.

Yup, same problem here. Will test the query momentarily.

And yes, the above query fixed it.

I am having the same problem. Migrating is done but no forums.

Please help

If all of your boards were in 1 category on your original board then just do the following:

In control panel, execute the following SQL command:

update ubbt_FORUMS set CATEGORY_ID='1'

Then clear your cache and you should be all set.

I didn't even have any categories. Just forums.

I did excute that command and this is what I get when I visit the forum

"We cannot proceed.
There are no forums for you to view. "

Check permissions on your forums in the control panel, it's possible you don't have read permissions for yourself.

I think I do have the right permissions. At first I tried the first code Rick posted, then I tried the second Rick poste. I hope I didn't corrupt anything.

Now, there is still nothing shown. when I check my phpmyadmin, the forum data is there.

Did you clear the cache in the control panel after running the command?

yes I did. No forums.

We cannot proceed.
There are no forums for you to view.

Ok, I'll probably need admin access to your forums to see what's going on. You can either open a support ticket or send me a private message with the info and I can take a look.

Rick, I have sent you my information.

Thank you

Hmm, did you send it in a ticket or in a private message? Just checked the ticket system and don't see anything new and I don't have any waiting private messages either.

I sent an hour ago as a private message.

Hmm, not showing in my message list. Can you bring it up in yours and click on the participants tab to see if I was included in the PM?

Got the one you just sent.

Ok, for some reason there was no category at all. I created one and reassigned the forums. Should be working now.

wow, i was thinking just that but figured that "General Discussion" was always created...