Fields missing in Add Listing Form

Hi Stiofan

Sorry for the late reply.

I was looking a bit deeper into it and accidentally noticed that this happened in Firefox but looked ok in Chrome – I was quite surprised.

So I flushed the whole Site and restarted it from scratch and the issue is gone.

However I still wonder what went wrong, as I used the same plugins and themes like before.

Miracles?

Anyhow I got confronted with a new issue this time: I exported all the data and images, followed the instructions to import them.

All the data got restored fine after the import, except for the author, because it had a different ID.
Maybe here it would be nice if the importer would make a check if that author exists and if not if an alternative author should be used.

I quickly changed the ID in Libre Office and did a next attempt. Now the author was there and I uploaded the images to the folder mentioned by the importer 2017/10.

All the pictures are there but in the Media Library I just got those grey placeholders… and the images show as unattached and of course dont show up on the site.

How could I fix this issue? Manually attaching them would maybe work but there are a few hundereds of them ….

Thanks for any hint, Peter

Hi Stiofan

thanks for your reply

The author ID has changed because I did completely build a new new site from scratch and didn’t add the users in the same sequence on the new site.

I think this issue will arise sooner or later for everyone if they try to export some data from one site to use them in another site.

Maybe it would also be a nice to have exporter feature if it would bee possible to select records just from one or more users.

In the meantime I managed to solve the image issue – I used the wrong images – my fault!
Sorry to bother you about this.

After using the right images all worked fine, sort of.

In the Media Library the images still showed the grey placeholders, but I got that working as well after running EWWWW Bulk optimizer scan.

What I personally don’t understand is why all the images have to get added into one folder and not into the original folder structure?

I mean, what if someone got thousands of images over the years and want to use the exporter because of rebuilding the site? And maybe even used some of them in articles and other places?

Maybe it would be nice if there would be an option in the exporter that lets the user choose if he wants to keep the original folder structure or not.

Hi Stiofan

thanks for your answer.

I just thought about to do an export right from the database with plain vanilla SQL.

Would you have any hints about what to care for and which tables I would need to export?

This would help me perfectly and I could also replace user id’s with SQL then.

Thanks again for the great support you and your team provides, thumbs up

Hi Stiofan

this sounds like a little challenge 🙂

But tbh, I think this is a weak spot in the otherwise great GeoDirectory.

So for a migration it seems to be the best way then to export all users and import them to the target site before importing the GD data.

Do you know some good tools for exporting / importing users?

Hi Paolo

thanks for your reply, but that was exactly the reason why I was asking if you know a good one. There are simply too many and everyone claims to have the best one to offer.

I thought you maybe have one that you have made some good experiences with.

Anyhow I’m getting closer to complete the SQL script to export the listings data.