the import by the user itself was only available during the development and beta version of 1.2, to test drive it and show the feature (IIRC).
It's never been available in a stable release of Mahara (at least so far :-))
Saludos.
Iñaki.
although the last post of this thread is a bit older - may I connect to this? Import got me abit confused as well. I think I understood the way an administrator imports a portfolio, thus creating a new user - as pointed out here: http://wiki.mahara.org/Developer_Area/Import//Export
However, a 2009 youtube tutorial by Nigel demonstrates import by the user itself - and yes, there is the import button:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFx0NHn4Ls
He demonstrates that within a Mahara 1.2 installation.
So - I'd like to refer to Angila's question - obviously the capability for the user to import a portfolio has been abandoned at some point. Can anyone who is familiar with the problem comment on that and rid me of my confusion?
;-)
Thanks,
Uwe
]]>thanks a lot for the info.
:-)
Angila
]]>Where did the import button disappear? Remember that only a site administrator can import a portfolio that was previously exported in the LEAP2A standard. Individual users can't do that. Therefore, there is no "import" button next to the "export" one in "My Porfolio".
If you want to import a portfolio, you need to go into Site Administration and add a user. There you can choose the LEAP2A file that you want to import and create a new user.
Cheers
Kristina
]]>Well I guess it's a bug, but I can't reproduce it myself (on 1.2 or master) -- the folders are exported and imported correctly for me.
However looking at this patch I think it's possible this was broken before 1.2.4, so you might want to upgrade if you don't have 1.2.4 yet.
R.
]]>BUT: I realized that with the initial import of the exported "All Data" the files folders had not been included in the export. Is this a bug or does this simply not work? This is very awkward as most of my views contain data from files in the folders..... and I cannot see a way of getting the files folders over to the other Mahara.......... oh dear .. am having quite a mess now....
Richard, any idea???
Cheers Sigi
Made a screenshot how the empty folder appears in the view:
]]>you are brilliant.... this is excactly the kind of work around I had been looking for... but obviously didn't think hard enough... so you're not only a good developer but also a practical guy :-)) ... and the good thing about it: it's easy to do even for not very techy savy users. You made my day :-). Have a great day yourself!
Sigi
]]>So after the import, log in to that new user's account, go to the view access screen for each view, add access for the old user and turn on the 'copying allowed' option. Then log in as the old user and copy the views one by one on the 'copy a view' page.
]]>The main obstacle is just that there are some artefacts (mostly resume and profile stuff) that users are only allowed to have one of, so we can't just import everything out of the leap file, we have to handle these artefacts specially and work out whether to overwrite the existing ones with the new ones or just throw the new ones away.
I think we should keep the single-view leap export option though. Mahara can't import them in a nice way, but other systems might still be able to do it.
]]>my problem was not that I couldn't create a LEAP file with all my views and import it to another MAHARA to a new user. This worked flawless.
My problem is that I have my views on various MAHARA platforms and would like to integrate all of them into one platform. Unfortunately this seems only possible by creating a new user for each import... and I end up with even more virtual identities :-(
Hopefully the developers will read this , hi Penny, Nigel, Richard ;-) and will come up with some work around...
Cheers
Sigi
]]>Hope that makes some sense... but if you can export a single view, what is the way you import that view into an existing user?
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