Alan McClure
  • Leawood, KS
  • United States
Share Twitter

Alan McClure's Discussions

How to archive Forum discussions?????!!!

Started this discussion. Last reply by Eric Suesz Dec 23, 2010. 6 Replies

I need to archive the discussion thread in one of my Forums. How do I do that. It appears that you can archive everything BUT forum threads with the Ning Archiver.  What the heck???!!Continue

Gifts Received

Gift

Alan McClure has not received any gifts yet

Give a Gift

 

Alan McClure's Page

Latest Activity

Linda S left a comment for Alan McClure
"Hi Alan, Did you ever figure our how to convert .json to readable files?  We are trying to do the same thing.  Or did you switch your discussion boards to another piece of software? Linda"
Aug 13, 2012
A discussion started by Alan McClure was featured

How to archive Forum discussions?????!!!

I need to archive the discussion thread in one of my Forums. How do I do that. It appears that you can archive everything BUT forum threads with the Ning Archiver.  What the heck???!!See More
Dec 28, 2010
A discussion started by Alan McClure was featured

How to archive Forum discussions?????!!!

I need to archive the discussion thread in one of my Forums. How do I do that. It appears that you can archive everything BUT forum threads with the Ning Archiver.  What the heck???!!See More
Dec 23, 2010
Eric Suesz replied to Alan McClure's discussion 'How to archive Forum discussions?????!!!'
"Very sorry for my very slow response to you. Not intentional!  Unfortunately, I don't think this is as easy as it might be for your purposes. There are a number of HTML stripper type programs that I think you could use for this purpose,…"
Dec 23, 2010
Alan McClure replied to Alan McClure's discussion 'How to archive Forum discussions?????!!!'
"Eric--Thanks for the reply.  We use the Blue Water Consulting site in Ning for marketing research discussion groups.  The best way for us to then write a report for the client is to have a downloadable file of each Forum that we can load…"
Dec 20, 2010
Eric Suesz replied to Alan McClure's discussion 'How to archive Forum discussions?????!!!'
"Hi, Alan. We selected json as a format because it is the one that you can potentially do the most with. However, we aren't able to provide a structured export of what the pages would look like in a typical forum. We are able to provide…"
Dec 19, 2010
Alan McClure replied to Alan McClure's discussion 'How to archive Forum discussions?????!!!'
"Eric--I found a json file in the Discussions folder downloaded to my desktop that appears to have the Forum thread in it...but it's all in what appears to be html code.  How do I convert that from a json file to something that looks like…"
Dec 18, 2010
Alan McClure replied to Alan McClure's discussion 'How to archive Forum discussions?????!!!'
"I see "Discussions" in the Ning Network Archiver window, and used it...but on my desktop when I download the Discussions content, in the Discussions folder I only see media files that I have uploaded to the Forum (a PDF file, and a couple…"
Dec 18, 2010
Eric Suesz replied to Alan McClure's discussion 'How to archive Forum discussions?????!!!'
"Forum discussions are included when you make a backup using the Ning Archiver. Do you not see that option? It should show up as Discussions, as it show here."
Dec 18, 2010
Alan McClure posted a discussion

How to archive Forum discussions?????!!!

I need to archive the discussion thread in one of my Forums. How do I do that. It appears that you can archive everything BUT forum threads with the Ning Archiver.  What the heck???!!See More
Dec 18, 2010
Alan McClure is now a member of Creators
Dec 18, 2010

Profile Information

What's your role? Network Creator (NC) or Admin?
Marketing consultant
A research site for doing online discussion groups

Comment Wall (2 comments)

You need to be a member of Creators to add comments!

Join Creators

At 10:11am on August 13, 2012, Linda S said…

Hi Alan,

Did you ever figure our how to convert .json to readable files?  We are trying to do the same thing.  Or did you switch your discussion boards to another piece of software?

Linda

At 3:01pm on December 18, 2010, Star-Dust said…
 
 
 

Latest Activity

soaringeagle replied to Julian Hughes's discussion 'Network issues'
"wait blogs are back and its fast again craziness pages disapear and reapear randombly "
1 minute ago
soaringeagle replied to Julian Hughes's discussion 'Network issues'
"its more then slowness many pages are turning up missing i have no blogs at all!"
3 minutes ago
soaringeagle replied to John's discussion 'Page disappeared'
"3.0 seems fine  havent checked every page but seen no issues but on 2.0 im seeinmg lots"
4 minutes ago
Julian Hughes replied to Julian Hughes's discussion 'Network issues'
"I think its affecting others too.....everything is messing up. Its happening I think…"
5 minutes ago
Julian Hughes replied to John's discussion 'Page disappeared'
"I thought they have people on call. My site is so slow loading and then its fast the next…"
6 minutes ago
soaringeagle replied to John's discussion 'Page disappeared'
"i cant post a status update either some profiles return 404 on some loads others load fine.. gonna…"
6 minutes ago
soaringeagle replied to John's discussion 'Page disappeared'
"its all messed up i am missing my blogs now ning please add an after hours on call number for…"
12 minutes ago
soaringeagle replied to John's discussion 'Page disappeared'
"yes somethings wrong blogs are missing activity not loading lots of issues"
14 minutes ago

© 2013   Created by Ning.

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service