Re: [WWdevel] maa webwork site? -- archived forum posts have bad dates.

[Sam H. <sh...@ma...>]

on 06/14/2007 09:19 AM Michael Gage said the following:

> I agree.  There is some hope that we can recover this eventually  
> since I believe it is a one time
> data loss caused by the move.  The posts in the archive forum still  
> have the date preserved on the internal
> data.  The newer posts from the last 6 months don't have any dates.
> 
> As I said I'm still saving all of the original forums -- it may be  
> that we'll need direct access to the mysql database
> on the maa machine in order to transfer the posts over with data.   
> Except for the archived posts there are only a few hundred entries so  
> it could be done somewhat manually.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions?

I'm wondering if it's possible to post each Frontier message as a
separate message in Moodle, rather than having an entire discussion end
up as a single Moodle message.

The one snag I can think of is that each message needs to have a user
associated with it, and we probably don't want to deal with the headache
of importing all the old users from the Frontier site.

As far as the posting dates go, dates seem to be part of the exported
XML file format -- the <POST> structure has <CREATED> and <MODIFIED>
field, and the <DISCUSSION> structure has a <TIMEMODIFIED> field (which
should probably match the <MODIFIED> parameter of the most recently
modified <POST> within it).

So I guess I'm unclear on how the post times got lost in the first place.
-sam