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DotText-CS-Converter is a conversion program to convert all .Text content to Community Server. Read my previous post about DotText-CS-Converter 1.x for background info.

Changes in Version 2.0

• URL's can remain the same! The CS PostID's for posts, articles, comments, and trackbacks will use the same numbers as the corresponding .Text Entry ID to keep the same URL's and prevent 404 errors. This is an option that you can turn off or on. It will only work if you don't already have content in your CS database (because if you did you might already be using some of the .Text IDs).
• Now converts .Text Galleries! Optionally, you can convert .Text image galleries into CS::Galleries. You can also create empty CS Galleries for those users without .Text galleries.
• Now, with turbo mode. I spent some time refactoring the code and making performance improvements where I could. The tool should now run significantly faster than before. Additionally, (at the suggestion of Scott W.) the conversion of Referrals is optional. If you have a very old blog with a ton of referrals, or are converting a very large number of blogs, then not converting referrals can save some time.
• Entry names will now be converted properly. Previously I was ignoring them. Entry names allow you to have a "friendly" url for a blog post instead of using the primary key.
• The utility can now (optionally) skip over errors instead of stopping.
• Prevents duplicate email constraint errors. The CS database requires each user to have a unique email, whereas .Text doesn't. If you are converting over multiple .Text users with same email, you would get an error. I added code to version 2, so that when creating a new user it will check if the user's email is already being used by an existing user in Community Server. If so, it changes the new user's email to the format "CSInvalidEmail_[USERNAME]_[BLOG_APPLICATION]@example.org" where the username and blog_application values are from whatever user/blog is being added.
• Content Replacer. New option allows you to do search-and-replace on one or more pieces of text in your blog content as you convert. So for example if your .Text blog was at blogs.mydomain.com and your CS blog is at www.mydomain.com/blogs then you can enter those into the new and old values and all instances of the old value will be replaced with the new value in your content.
• Some other small bug fixes, mostly related to converting content into an existing CS User and/or blog.

Download Link: DotText-CS-Converter_v2.0.zip

1. Unzip the file.
2. Read the READ_ME_FIRST.txt file for more information and detailed directions.
3. Run the DotText-CS-Converter.exe program.

For questions or help, email me or just ask on this blog or in the CommunityServer.org forums so everyone can see the answer. I will post any updates to this tool on my blog and in the Community Server forums. Thank you to everyone who helped me test this tool and have offered suggestions and feedback!

Update: New Version 2.1 - 3/24/05

DotText-CS-Converter version 2.1 is now available. Version 2.0 is obsolete. Read this post for more information.