Forum Activity for @claygordon

Importing members from Ghost

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Paul:

Not wanting to receive email is a feature in Ghost. As an admin, I can do this as well. I will remove all entries that are flagged to not deliver before uploading.

When I know someone has more than one account (each account is linked to a unique email address, like me) I will dedupe beforehand. Most of these have one of the accounts listed as do not mail.

I will include the date/time data I have.

As for the CSV file. I will email it to you directly rather than attaching it here - to your m***or.net account?

Importing members from Ghost

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Paul:

Thanks for this mapping.

1) Will clone an existing quota and use that ID#
2) There are about 1950 names in the database. I will need to do some purging before the import.

• An unknown number are already in the existing Jamroom database. (Some were exported from Jamroom into Maven and then from exported from Maven into Ghost.)
• Some of them are flagged as not wanting to receive email for one reason or another
• Some are flagged as being spammers
• Some people (like me) have multiple accounts

3) Created at entries look like "2020-12-03T00:04:39.000Z"
4) Does the file to be imported need the header row? With all the columns in the same order?

Importing members from Ghost

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Just a note: here is what a Ghost "id" looks like:

5fc82b97d400910001358315

Importing members from Ghost

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Paul:

I was having some SFTP access issues but was able to finally download the sample_members.csv file from
.../modules/jrExporter/plugins/CSV/samples

Following are the column headings from that file. I don’t know what some of them mean and which are required to have something in them. I can see how to do some of the mapping.

at
user_name
user_email
_profile_export_id
_user_export_id
_profile_created
_profile_updated
_user_created
_user_updated
profile_quota_id
profile_private
user_password
_profile_file.image
_user_file.image

Here are the columns in the Ghost export:

id
email
name
note
subscribed_to_emails
complimentary_plan
stripe_customer_id
created_at
deleted_at
labels
tiers

Importing members from Ghost

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Paul:

I am not sure I know how to clone a quota but I was planning on creating a new quota. If I can clone an existing quota with all its attributes – that would be great. I searched the documentation but found no reference to that capability.

I checked and jrNewsletter does allow me to send to specified quotas.

I will be happy to send you a test CSV for you to run.

Importing members from Ghost

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Paul:

Thanks.

I have installed both modules and will FTP to my site to find the sample .CSV file.

I want to confirm:

1) the importer module will dedupe email addresses already in the database
2) whether or not the imported members will be notified by email or if that is a manual process for me

Forum Category URL -- bad URL

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On my JR site, I have a forum category: Tech Help, Tips, Tricks, & Techniques

The URL for this category is: https://archive.thechocolatelife.com/community/forums/tech-help-tips-tricks--techniques

HOWEVER, when I click on it I go to the category listing page: https://archive.thechocolatelife.com/community/forums/

If I take a look at the links in my analytics software (Fathom) I can get to forum entries like:

https://archive.thechocolatelife.com/community/forums/tech-help-tips-tricks-techniques/16141/my-toffee-has-problems-please-help

The problem does not appear to be as simple the second dash between tricks--techniques but I don’t know why the discrepancy and how to solve the problem.

updated by @claygordon: 03/15/25 12:56:23PM

Importing members from Ghost

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Paul:

Thanks!

Importing members from Ghost

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One more issue – I am self-hosting and this module does not appear to be in the marketplace.

Importing members from Ghost

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Michael – That does appear to be the solution, but the link to the documentation generates an "OOPS... PAGE NOT FOUND" error for me with or without my VPN active.