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Advice required importing existing CMS (Rhythmyx) data (in CSV format) to Drupal 6.x

I have an existing CMS (Rhythmyx) with well-defined content types and relationships, the data from which I can output in CSV format.

I wish to import the data into Drupal 6.x.

I have already created the content types in Drupal (using CCK to define custom attributes) - what is the best method / module to bulk import data (CSV) into Drupal?

TIA.

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Hello everybody,
I'm planning to migrate my company website to Drupal from a custom made CMS that had become too hard to maintain.

Please help: importing and updating content

I am faced with a rather tricky challenge which I have not been able to come up with a solution for as of yet. This is for a client project where we need to import lots (30,000 + rows) of data about hotels (e.g., location, description, price, etc).

The initial import is not what presents the problem. I can do that quite easily using Node Import module.

The problem is that this data is updated several times a year by a data provider who basically send us a new .csv file with all of the latest information. No way of telling what rows have changed, where new rows have been added, deleted, etc.

Furthermore, to compound things, each hotel does not have a unique id number (gasp, I know).

On the website, each hotel has ratings, reviews, and comments associated with it.

Does anyone know of a solution where I can do the initial import, and then periodically do an update that will update existing rows and add new rows, all while keeping peripheral info like comments intact?

So far I have tried Node Import, which works fine for the initial import. I've investigated Node Import Update (http://drupal.org/project/node_import_update) but in my tests it appears to do nothing.

/taxonomy/term/<tid> failing when term created in a certain way

this is a real scull scratcher for me.
I have been doing a database migration from an old mambo CMS.

Everything goes fine... the nodes get created in two languages, the relationships between translated nodes is preserverved, the mambo tags get transformed into drupal taxonomy terms.... all great.

But then...
For the content in spanish, I have to transform the terms into new spanish tags.

my process goes something like this.

I create the vocabularies
I create the english terms, including adding entries in the term_hierarchy that indicates a flat hierarchy
I then populate term_node for all content (english and spanish)
I then populate term_data with the spanish terms (if I do this sooner, then the spanish and english terms collide because there is overlap)
I have a query that looks for spanish nodes, then translates the terms to spanish terms.
I then update term_node for those spanish nodes and replace english terms with spanish terms (tid's).

When I look for content through the admin interface by one of the spanish terms, no problem.
When I view content I see the spanish tags, no problem.
When I click on the spanish tag, without fail, /taxonomy/term/586, returns no results, even though I just came through a listing of content with that term.

Any thoughts??
I've tried disabling Taxonomy Translation, but no help.

Slideshow with external images

So my context is that I have thousands of articles in a Joomla database, and over 400 of these articles have slideshows of images. These images are hosted on picasa and separated into groups of photos. Each group is a slideshow. Currently a plugin in Joomla just takes the url of the picasa gallery during the page load, extracts the descriptions and links to the photos on the picasa servers.

Here's an example of what eventually happens:

http://www.ksmu.org/content/view/7373/2/

Creating the site separate from the final domain name...

WARNING: I AM CLUELESS BUT SMART. I AM FAKING MY WAY THROUGH BUILDING A DRUPAL SITE, LEARNING LINUX AND APACHE SERVER ADMINISTRATION, AND I DON't EVEN KNOW HOW TO DO CSS.

BUT I'M SMART SO I MANAGE TO FIGURE OUT A LOT.

I'm in the process of rebuilding my public, commercial website from the ground up in Drupal. So I can't be experimenting and testing on the final domain, I need to get it all nice and tidy and functional, and then just sort of flip a switch.

So... how do I do this?

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