Now that Feeds exists, and seems to provide this functionality for D6 and D7, is it worth upgrading this module, or should it be deprecated in Feeds's favour?

Node import has been much appreciated, but I thought this might be a good time to raise the question.

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yurtboy’s picture

yurtboy commented

I think they are two different modules from the stand point of the End User.

1. End User: Owner of the Site
As a developer / sitebuilder node import is a lot friendlier interface to hand over to some clients who want to import or update data.

2. End User: Developer
As a developer the feed import and field mapping can be doable but node import seem to be a bit more complete for complex imports. Yet not too complex for smaller jobs then is worth it for the new migrate module.

I have used
Feed
Node Import
Migrate
Data

I think they all have a place in this. Knowing how hard it is to maintain a module I could understand not wanting to have such repeat functionality modules in place. My most recent site is going to rely on importing a CSV file. This left me having to look more at the feed module and migrate 2. Migrate 2 meant a lot more work to write out the import so now I will try the Feed module. But if that is not as easy to use as node import I might do node import in drupal 6 then upgrade the site to d7 with that data.
I will post more notes after that work.

yurtboy’s picture

yurtboy commented

feeds is lacking
1. multi taxonomy per node import
2. link you can click to download a csv file of all the nodes that had errors or did not import.

mattbk’s picture

mattbk commented

Will Feeds import to (what used to be CCK) fields, and will it allow node and user references through References module?

yurtboy’s picture

yurtboy commented

Have not dared to try yet.

Cheek’s picture

Cheek commented

1. End User: Owner of the Site
As a developer / sitebuilder node import is a lot friendlier interface to hand over to some clients who want to import or update data.

+1. Not just for clients, but for me.. :)

kenianbei’s picture

kenianbei commented

+1 on D7 Node Import. Migrate is a headache to program and feeds doesn't handle node reference at all.

webankit’s picture

webankit commented

+1

anonymous07’s picture

anonymous07 commented

+1 for keeping Node Import. It has been a lifesaver. D6 Feeds (for me) is not as good as D5 FeedAPI.

MacaroniDuck’s picture

MacaroniDuck commented

I just tried to utilize Feeds for the first time and it doesn't appear to support Node Reference fields.

willmoy’s picture

willmoy commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

I think there's a consensus that node import has life beyond feeds...

breckenr’s picture

breckenr commented

+1

pointblank101’s picture

pointblank101 commented

+1

MicS65’s picture

MicS65 commented

I would also like to see a drupal 7 version of node import.

Although feeds can offer the basic functions from node import, there are some things that feeds can not do at the moment:
- I use the domain access module. With feeds there is no way to select a domain for the imported csv-data.
- It is not possible to chose different input formats for single fields
- It is not possible to use different kinds of "Record separators", "Text delimiters", "Escape characters" or special Field seperators (like | or TAB).

And the support for feeds does not seem to be very good. Requests for new functions are ignored for a long time. There is no final versions. The last alpha is nearly a year old. Only some smaller devs since then...