Hi montemedia

I have run a few tests and all the dates seem fine.

I imported and transferred a few archived items and all dates were successfully moved into the archive manger list.
I then created a section and category archive links in the main menu and tested the date dropdown boxes which worked as expected.

I then published the archive module which also worked correctly.

One thing I did notice is that when accessing archives via the archive module there is no date dropdown available I don't know whether that is the way it is suppose to work or not.

That said I do realise that the archived items do not display in Export Content Component under "Insert Content Items" in the content items list.
Although they are still transferred when moving by section(s) or category(s)

This will be fixed this in the next release so that archived items will have a different icon in the published/unpublished column so archived items may be selected individually.

However if the dates are not displaying in the archive manager can you check the database via "PHPmyAdmin" (jos_content->created field ) to see if the dates were moved successfully and if they were it may be a problem with Joomla.
What version of Joomla are you using?

Hello again, Steve

First of all, thanks for trying.

I checked my jos_content table: all dates are 00:00:00 but modified (showing date and time of importing).

I am using Joomla 1.0.12. on local computer, with newest xampp.

What is your verison of Joomla? Maybe I should try with older one (that is fine with me - later I can upgrade to actual Joomla). I will instal, say, 1.0.8, and inform you about result.

Thanks.

Hi montemedia

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I checked my jos_content table: all dates are 00:00:00 but modified (showing date and time of importing).

I am using Joomla 1.0.12. on local computer, with newest xampp.

What is your verison of Joomla? Maybe I should try with older one (that is fine with me - later I can upgrade to actual Joomla). I will instal, say, 1.0.8, and inform you about result.

Export Content has been tested on 1.0.11 and 1.0.12.

I can not reproduce your problem all archive dates transfer as expected in all my tests.

In the next release there will be an option to transfer archived items separately so that should resolve the trouble you are having.

I received your PM

Are other content item dates being transferred correctly?
I realise that archived items are not visible in the content list therefore can not be selected but still transfer when moving by category(s) or section(s).

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not reproduce your problem all archive dates transfer as expected in all my tests.

I will try to do some more testing, on brand new instalation of J 1.0.12 and brand new content.

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Are other content item dates being transferred correctly?
I realise that archived items are not visible in the content list therefore can not be selected but still transfer when moving by category(s) or section(s).

Other items are imported with date information.
Yes, archived items are not visible on the list for choosing which article to upload, and they are not uploaded when I choose "select all".

They are uploaded when I choose "Import category" or "Import section", together with non-archived items.
In "Import content" I have only non-archived items.

Do you want to try with my import_content_data.zip? I can upload it to some server and send you URL on PM.

EDITED: Some misunderstanding.

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Do you want to try with my import_content_data.zip? I can upload it to some server and send you URL on PM.

OK yes that may be the way to go.

Here is a patch that should allow you to transfer by category with all dates in place.
http://www.bestdownloadsites.com/export/patches/ admin.export_content.zip

unzip it locally and FTP it to:
/administrator/components/com_export_content/admin.export_content.php

and overwrite admin.export_content.php

Also I noticed there are a few characters not displaying correctly in the titles and content if you let me know what they are suppose to be I will add them to the character conversion function that allows for non English characters.

Good work, Steve!

This patch made my dates OK!

Thanks for your trying and for help.

About strange characters, it comes from UTF-8. I can not see those characters properly in my database, but they appears OK on web sites, so I guess that everything is fine with conversion.

Thanks again.

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This patch made my dates OK!

Yes this will be included in the next release along with a few other things to make it easier to transfer archived items.

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Thanks for your trying and for help.

Glad to help.
Please let me know if you have anymore problems.

has this been added to the newest version of this component?

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has this been added to the newest version of this component?

Yes it has