[support] Filling taxonomy fields

[Richard Damon]

On 9/16/13 3:17 AM, Roger wrote:
> I'm starting a new Drupal 7.23 site utilising pagemanager and panels, 
> following Johan Falk's 13 video tuts.
> The site will be a rebuild of an existing live site but with a different 
> focus and will use much of the existing taxonomy data.
> Taxonomy data is Books and Authors, Localities, Venues, Contacts, Quotes 
> and the like.
> Current site is events based, new site will be newsletter based, events 
> data will be just one part thereof for inclusion in the news format but 
> the taxonomy data is needed for the newsletter items and to facilitate 
> events entry in a controlled format.
>
> Is there any way:
>   - I can copy the content of previous taxonomy field data over to a new 
> database table/field of the same name without manually cutting and 
> pasting each one?
>   - To copy the date format settings over to the new?
> My problem is much of the data is affected by workbench so I cannot 
> simply reuse the database because any data containing workbench 
> references will fail.
>
> Backup and restore copies the workbench stuff so that's not helpful.
> phpmyadmin will copy the right fields but these have workbench 
> references and cause errors in the new system.
>
> I'd appreciate any help or advice on how to do this
> thanks in advance
> Roger
You may want to see if the Migrate module will do what you want. It will
require you writing some code, but is designed to do this sort of stuff.

-- 
Richard Damon