Importing libguides

Kaitlin Newson

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Oct 17, 2016, 4:46:17 PM10/17/16

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Hello,

I'm currently testing out a migration from libguides (v2) to subjectsplus (4.0.3), but seem to be having issues. I saw in another thread that this was more of an experimental feature, but was wondering what the current status of this feature is. Also, does it work with libguides v2?

I also noticed that the documentation is out of date, so I might just be missing a step somewhere!

I've attached a screenshot of the errors I'm running into when I try to upload the xml.

Thanks!

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Andrew Darby

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Oct 17, 2016, 4:52:27 PM10/17/16

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Hi Kaitlin,

Unfortunately the importer was from version 1 of libguides. I don't think there's any hope with it working for version 2, since that is completely different :-(

Even doing the import from version one was quite problematic, because their export xml was iffy.

Andrew

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Kaitlin Newson

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Oct 19, 2016, 12:53:21 PM10/19/16

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Thanks Andrew. Is there an example of the xml structure that the importer looks for? I'm wondering if I can potentially rework the xml to make it work with the importer.

On Monday, 17 October 2016 16:52:27 UTC-4, AGD wrote:

Hi Kaitlin,

Unfortunately the importer was from version 1 of libguides. I don't think there's any hope with it working for version 2, since that is completely different :-(

Even doing the import from version one was quite problematic, because their export xml was iffy.

Andrew

On Oct 17, 2016 4:46 PM, "Kaitlin Newson" <kaitlin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm currently testing out a migration from libguides (v2) to subjectsplus (4.0.3), but seem to be having issues. I saw in another thread that this was more of an experimental feature, but was wondering what the current status of this feature is. Also, does it work with libguides v2?

I also noticed that the documentation is out of date, so I might just be missing a step somewhere!

I've attached a screenshot of the errors I'm running into when I try to upload the xml.

Thanks!

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Little, Jamie

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Oct 19, 2016, 2:14:48 PM10/19/16

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Kaitlin,

I'll send you our LibGuides v1 XML dump off list so you can see how it is formatted. One of the problems with the XML export from LibGuides is that it isn't necessarily valid

XML. After we downloaded our XML, we needed to open it in Oxygen and make corrections to make the XML valid. There can be problems

in it like unescaped ampersands that will break the importer.

Because SP and LibGuides are totally different software products the importer isn't perfect! We successfully

used the importer at UM, but the process also involved a great deal of manual clean up of the results that pulled

in folks from across the library.

It may be less time consuming to copy and paste content into new guides unless you have a massive amount of LibGuides.

Thanks,

Jamie

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