[pmwiki-users] "Importing" Pages?

[Dr Fred C]

Dave Brockman wrote:
> I'm a newbie, and I'm old, so please forgive me if this is a totally 
> stupid question. I have a bunch of lists that I would like to import as 
> WikiPages. I there some way to do this easily? Copying and pasting works 
> but is way too slow. Thanks in advance!
>
> (old) Dave
Download and install the cookbook tabtable into your cookbook and put 
the following line into your local config, somewhere around the 
EnableGUIButtons command for organizational purposes.
include_once('cookbook/tabtable.php'); 

This creates an icon on the edit screen that will convert copy and 
pasted excel files into tables.

Depending upon the source and format of your lists, you may be able to 
copy and paste the list directly into a wiki page then convert into a 
table.  I've found that list in Word docs typically need to be copy and 
pasted the into Excel or an OpenOffice spreadsheet, then repeat your 
copy and paste into the wiki page. 

Once you've copy and pasted your list into the wiki page, you highlight 
the copied list and click the tab table icon to convert the copied list 
into a wiki table.  If the pasted list was of the proper (tab 
delimited?) format, it will be converted into tables.  If, not, you 
probably need to add the extra "copy and paste into a spreadsheet" step 
mentioned about to get things to work.

 



Always, Dr Fred C
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