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Elisa de Castro Guerra

Hi,

We use booky to our collection of book. We want to migrate to booktype 1.6. We have around 200 books to migrate and we don't want lost them :)

When i import a bookyzip or epub from objavi to booktype demo, there is no error message but the book don't import.

How do you think that i could import our book from our old booky to the new booktype ?

Thanks,

Daniel James

Hi Elisa, I just tested importing http://fr.flossmanuals.net/initiation-inkscape/ to the demo site and it did not work, so I can confirm the issue. What I would suggest is that you install Booktype 1.6.1 on a test server and start by looking for any errors in the log when you try an import.

If you take a look at the file scripts/createbooki in the Booktype 1.6.1 tarball, you will see that the error log is set according to the web server in use, for example:

/var/log/apache2/booktype-error.log

if you are using Apache. Let us know how you get on!

Daniel

Elisa de Castro Guerra

Is it possible to know wich are the log errors on your server, as you already have a booktype 1.6.1 installed ?

Aleksandar Erkalović

I noticed the same problem couple of days ago and I have identified problem for this. Not sure when the fix would come for this.

For upgrading you don't need to export and import books again. You should do backup of database, project directory (including attachments and etc) and then upgrade. This way you would also keep book history, usernames and all the other needed information. If you want some extra security you can always write a script which will dump each book into booki zip or epub file.

You would need to get new Booktype source, check all settings and modify if something needed, check if all the Django apps are installed, check all of your custom templates that they have correct paths and using good template tags. Do the dump of database and copy project files to test server and try to do upgrade there. This would help you recognise all possible issues which might come considering you are upgrading from very old version.

Some of the steps are mentioned here:

https://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/Booktype/How+to+upgrade+Booktype

Aco

Elisa de Castro Guerra

Thanks for your reply, i send this answer to our team :)

Tomi Toivio · Post edited by Tomi Toivio at 2014-06-14 09:55:34

You need to use the Booki link to import the book: http://fr.flossmanuals.net/ecrire/initiation-inkscape/

http://fr.flossmanuals.net/initiation-inkscape/ is a link to the Bookipublisher version of the book.

So import to Booktype 1.6.1 works at least for me: http://books.okf.fi/initiation-inkscape/introduction/

Tomi Toivio

Works on the demo site as well: http://booktype-demo.sourcefabric.org/initiation-inkscape/_draft/_v/1.0/introduction/

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