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B D
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September 8, 2015 at 12:43 pm
Hi,
We’re trying to migrate data from a Joomla extension (DT Register) which also does event management. We’d like to be able to import the event and tie users to the events (as registered and paid).
What’s the easiest way to do this?
Thank you in advance.
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B D
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September 8, 2015 at 12:44 pm
Also, is there a way to manually register a user for free to an event in the backend?
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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September 8, 2015 at 2:54 pm
Hi there,
Unfortunately, Event Espresso 4 does not have a feature that allows you to import events or attendees/registrants at this time.
Here is one way to handle complimentary tickets for attendees/registrants:
https://gist.github.com/lorenzocaum/7115b1fe6c66418b83fc
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Lorenzo
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B D
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September 8, 2015 at 3:03 pm
Hi,
In the meantime, is there a way we can do this with code then? Any guidance on this would be appreciated.
I think importing data is a mandatory feature for any event management system…
Thank you.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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September 9, 2015 at 8:16 am
Hi, there isn’t a way to import this information into Event Espresso 4 through the WP dashboard as information is stored across native WP tables along with specific tables for Event Espresso.
One option that you may consider is switching to Event Espresso 3 which has an importer for events and attendees. Then you could upgrade to Event Espresso 4 to migrate your information.
If you would like to explore that route, then just follow up with us here and include a link to this support post so we can update your account:
sales [at] eventespresso.com
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Lorenzo
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B D
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September 9, 2015 at 9:10 am
Ouch we made a lot of custom code already (i.e. a custom espresso-events-table-template.template.php).
I’ve contacted them to ask for a version of EE3 to see if that works.
Thank you.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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September 9, 2015 at 9:33 am
Thanks, I just applied the change and sent over a confirmation.
Here are some tips on transitioning to EE3:
https://gist.github.com/lorenzocaum/54f16f0ccd274e311648
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Lorenzo
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B D
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September 9, 2015 at 12:13 pm
Hi Lorenzo,
I downgraded to EE3 and uploaded the events and attendees but when I use shortcode [ESPRESSO_MY_EVENTS] it doesn’t show the users past events.
We would like to be able to import all past events and tie users to the events (as registered and paid). Is this possible??
Thank you.
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B D
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September 9, 2015 at 3:30 pm
Also, it looks like when I use the EE3 User Integration plugin users aren’t created when they sign up for an event like EE4. Is it different?
Thanks in advance again Lorenzo!
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Josh
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September 9, 2015 at 3:42 pm
It’s possible. While we don’t have an automated tool for doing this, if you can export your user and event data to match the structure of the _events_member_rel database table for Event Espresso 3, you can import the data into that table.
The tricky part is converting the old Joomla data to WP data. Specifically:
+ Joomla user IDs to convert to the new WP user IDs
+ old event IDs from Joomla to the new Event Espresso event IDs
+ attendee IDs from Joomla to the new Event Espresso attendee_ids
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B D
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September 10, 2015 at 12:34 pm
That sounds like it could work. I’ll give this a try. Thank you!
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