Importing and Merging Sites

Two modules move content into a Jamroom site: profiles, users and their items, with their files.

• Exporter reads a source and writes JSON files. Plugins read different sources:
  • Jamroom: another Jamroom site, to merge it into yours
  • Ning3: a Ning 3 member archive
  • CSV: your own CSV files, such as a list of members
• Importer reads those JSON files and creates the profiles, users and items on your site, downloading their files from the source.

1. Install Exporter on the site you're exporting from. For Ning and CSV imports, that's usually the site you're importing into.
2. Set it up and choose the plugin. See Setting Up the Exporter.
3. Create the JSON files with the plugin: Jamroom, Ning3 or CSV.
4. Install Importer on the site you're importing into, and point it at the source. See Setting Up the Importer.
5. Import the members first, then the items. See Importing the Files.
6. Convert the media, and check the result. See Importer Tools.

To merge several sites into one, repeat the steps for each source. See How Merging Works.

The JSON files sit between the two modules, so they can be checked, or prepared by hand, before you import. Their format is in The JSON File Format.

• From Jamroom 4: see Jamroom 4 Import.
• Users only, from a CSV file: see User Import.
• Audio files from a folder on the server: see Audio Import.