[thelist] Converting WebBoard to FuseTalk

Chris Blessing webguy at mail.rit.edu
Tue Mar 19 16:45:00 CST 2002


I'm going to be doing something very similar, porting the data from a
WWWThreads MySQL db to IdealBB with SQL Server.  What I've planned thus far
is very simple: use SQL Server DTS to transfer old posts, users, etc. since
most of the information itself is the same across these systems.  I'll setup
IdealBB's database and then massage the WWWThreads data into it field by
field, table by table.

vBulletin provides a UBB->vB convertor but that's all I'm aware of as far as
tools go.  HTH!

Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
http://www.330i.net

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Greetings!

One of my clients is interested in upgrading their current Conference
package (WebBoard) to something that is a cleaner integration with their
web site. They are using Cold Fusion on their site, and I thought that
FuseTalk (from e-zone media) would be a good place to start my evaluations.
Before I get into that however, I have to determine how to port the content
of the WebBoard Db (i.e. Threads, Message ID's, poster ID, etc) to whatever
new package they decide to purchase.

Has anyone done this successfully? From WebBoard (version 4) to something
else? I understand the mechanics of what has to be done, I am just
wondering if there are some instructions provided with other packages that
give a step by step so I don't have to start from scratch...

TIA!

Susan Wallace




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