Bulk Import

Version

1.0b2 (last update on Feb 18, 2009)

Rating

4.22 out of 5.00 from 9 users.

Compatibility

Votes

Favoured 29

License

GPLv2 or later

Non-Commercial

Type

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37571

Date Added

2 February 2009

Developer

GammaBlue Development

Bulk Import is a Joomla extention that allows articles to be submitted in bulk via file upload of a delimeted file.


Features include:

- Import Article Title, Article Intros, Article Body, Article Title, Metadata Description, Metadata Keywords
- Configurable column mapping definition Multiple delimiters supported, including Pipe (|, reccomended) and Comma (, for CSV).
- Selectable assignment to section and category
- Use of common attributes, like Creator and Published status, applied to all articles in the upload
- Auto-creation of article alias from title if no alias is provided
- Removal of special characters to reduce the chance of parsing errors.
- Bulk Import has been tested on Joomla 1.5 for over 2000 article imports. See the demo link to see the results.

Development credit: Bulk Import is based upon the Mass Content module (authored by Johann Eriksen of balticore.com) under the terms of the GNU GPLv2 license. Many thanks go to them for providing the basis of this extension.

UPDATE 2/18/2009:
- Beta2 released, fixing some browser incompatibility issues. The download link has been updated with the new version.