Fresh J3.4 Installation - Ex-/Import categories and Entries?
By wstein on Thursday, 30 April 2015
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Hi at all,

after my J2.5 site has been hacked, I have to build up a new fresh Joomla 3.4 installation with latest JEvents.

But how do I backup all my categories and all my Dates from different calendars and restore them into the fresh installation.

Here are the support informations from the old site:


PHP Version : 5.3.28-1~dotdeb.0

MySQL Version : 5.1.73-1+deb6u1

Joomla : 2.5.22

component_com_jevents : 3.1.21

component_com_jce : 2.4.2

module_mod_jevents_cal : 3.1.21

module_mod_jevents_custom : 3.1.21

module_mod_jevents_filter : 3.1.21

module_mod_jevents_latest : 3.1.21

module_mod_jevents_legend : 3.1.21

module_mod_jevents_switchview : 3.1.21

plugin_finder_jevents : 3.1.21 (not enabled)

plugin_search_eventsearch : 3.1.21


And here they are for the new installation:


PHP Version : 5.3.28-1~dotdeb.0

MySQL Version : 5.1.73-1+deb6u1

Joomla : 3.4.1

component_com_jevents : 3.2.12

module_mod_jevents_cal : 3.2.12

module_mod_jevents_custom : 3.2.12

module_mod_jevents_filter : 3.2.12

module_mod_jevents_latest : 3.2.12

module_mod_jevents_legend : 3.2.12

module_mod_jevents_switchview : 3.2.12

plugin_content_jevents : 3.2.12

plugin_finder_jevents : 3.2.12 (not enabled)

plugin_search_eventsearch : 3.2.12


Thanks

Wolfgang
Hello Wolfgang,

You will be best creating a JEvents Export Menu Item on the old site and exporting them.

Then on the new site go to: JEvents -> Calendars and create a new calendar, select from file and click load ical. Then your events and categories will be created.

Many thanks
Tony
tonyp
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Thursday, 30 April 2015 12:34
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Hi Tony,

thanks for reply. It works.

At the old Installation (J2.5.x)
[list=a]At the backend I added a new menu-entry "Export" to my main-menu
[list=b][/list:o]Then I hide the calendars, except this one i want to transfer. (this is, because I have single calendars for every year)
[list=c][/list:o]Now, at frontend, I choose the export-menu-button and export the calendar-entries which are now not hided (e.g. 2015).
[list=d][/list:o]I got an .ics-file with all entries an categories and saved it on my computer.[/list:o]

At the new installation (J3.4.x)
[list=d]At the backend I create a new calendar. The entries where importet by file (the .ics-file i got).
[list=e][/list:o]While JEvents import the entries, it also imports the categories as well when settings are made correct.
[list=f][/list:o]After this I had all the categories and entries from old calendar transfered to the new installation.
[list=g][/list:o]This workaroud I did three times for different calendars (2013,2014,2015) and everything works fine.[/list:o]

I think this discription will help some other useres in the forum.

Kind regards
Wolfgang
wstein
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Sunday, 03 May 2015 11:50
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Hi!

I don't want to hijack an old thread but this one fits my needs perfectly. I'm trying to export calender entries like described in this article but I don't get it.

I'm using an customized template and I don't have have a directory "/YOURTEMPLATE/html/com_jevents"!? Do I have to create it?... Do I also have to copy "...range/tmpl/listevents.php"?

Questions Questions Questions and no plan how to start

Kind regards,
Manfred
mysigma
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Friday, 29 January 2016 17:02
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Hello Manfred,

For a JEvents Export you don't need to do any of that. That's only CSV exporting.

See this video I did to explain exporting and importing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5WH6-vDIUg

Many thanks
Tony
tonyp
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Friday, 29 January 2016 21:10
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Hello Tony!

Thank you for the link to the video. I'm now having the csv-file but the description of an event is not exported, right?

Kind regards,
Manfred
mysigma
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Saturday, 30 January 2016 08:41
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Did you look in the CSV file? Can you give us the first few rows of it so we can see how its set up
geraint
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Saturday, 30 January 2016 10:56
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Hello Geraint!

It seems to be my fault. I converted the ICS file to CSV again and everything was/is fine.

Thank you!
Manfred
mysigma
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Wednesday, 03 February 2016 15:34
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Great to hear Manfred, thanks for letting us know.
tonyp
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Wednesday, 03 February 2016 19:49
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