The node import module - bulk imports of content made easy

Website developers reading this will all agree - it can be quite a pain when a client is moving from some archaic static html site (or CMS) over to a dynamic site - especially when there is a lot of content to move over.

Well, to make things easier I suggest putting all the old content into a spreadsheet and then dumping it into the new Drupal site you've made for them... "What a second," you say, "how can I dump a bunch of content easily into my Drupal site?"  Well, all you need is the node import module folks; its a great tool that plays nicely with the CCK; so you can prepare a CSV file with all the content you want and then import each row as a node!  When you import the data the module asks which fields map to which column in the CSV so don't worry; if you're focused when doing imports, the whole process should be pretty clean and straight-forward!

yeah it's pretty intuitive

yeah it's pretty intuitive and quite flexible.. but what about images? I haven't found any easy way to link up images.

I agree. I'm also

I agree. I'm also interested in images. But on the import I can't seem to select the CCK imagefield's file name in the import mapping

Could you analyze a bit

george's picture

Could you analyze a bit further?
Importing is 'easy' but what about when you want to link each content with some category?
You can migrate them 'generally' but in the right category is a bit pain in the a$$ ! :(

This module sounds very

Search Engine's picture

This module sounds very worthwhile! Should certainly help speed up the whole process...

Nice piece of info

The Webmasters Forum's picture

Nice piece of info there.
thanks for that.

This module is really very

MJH's picture

This module is really very helpful when you have to import content. And it also works with a lot of other modules like ‘location’.