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Swish - 10/25/2009 12:31:05 AM
   
Converting existing site to Kentico
Hi, I'm planning to convert an existing (custom-built) forums-based website to Kentico. The site is pretty large with thousands of users and hundreds of thousands of forum posts.

I'm planning to write a custom app that uses the API to read the existing database and create the users, forums, threads, posts, etc. in Kentico. Is that the best way to do this, or do you (hopefully) have an existing tool or technique to do this?

Thanks!

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kentico_martind - 10/27/2009 5:46:58 AM
   
RE:Converting existing site to Kentico
Hello,

Regrettably there is not tool that could ensure importing of data for forums and users. There is only SQL import tool that is intended to import data as documents. You will need to use API in your case. Please see 'How to create forums objects using API' article and 'Managing users' topic from DevGuide for more details and sample code.

Best Regards,

Martin Dobsicek