Question2Answer Q&A - Recent questions tagged bulk-import

anything new for generating bulk content?

Sat, 07 Oct 2017 00:22:33 +0000

Any way to bulk import questions and answers. I explored, but found none.

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 06:31:58 +0000

I was able to configure Q&A on my local machine. Since i had some Q&A already prepared in Excel any provision to import them directly.

Any help is much appreciated.

[New Premium Plugin] BCG - Bulk Content Generator

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 12:12:48 +0000

There are many reasons to create content programmatically. One of them could be having a new site with a small amount of users. In this case, site owners need to ask and answer their own questions in order to generate content. This process can be bothersome and slow using a web interface.

This is a very common situation most communities face when they are starting from scratch. Bulk Content Generator is a plugin that eases the process of creating content on sites. In short, it allows users to import a spreadsheet that contains questions, answers or comments and turn them into real posts in the site. It is also possible to configure the creation date of the posts (so that they don't look like they were created all in the same day) as well as the user who created them, among many other things.

Plugin features include:

Create questions, answers and comments taken from a file
All posts can be set an author or be anonymous
Questions can be set a category, tags and the Q2A extra value, if configured in the site
Answers can be selected
Ability to disable notifications on the created posts (to avoid any future email)
Ability to disable notifications while creating the posts (to avoid emails only while creating the posts)
All posts can be set a particular creation date in the past or it can even be generated randomly
Work is split into batches and progress is updated after processing each batch
Administrators can select what user levels can perform imports

If you are interested in reading more about the plugin you can check the plugin page. There, you'll find some additional features and screenshots. This plugin is no longer under development as of 2025-07-16.

Move a category to a different Q2A

Thu, 07 Jul 2016 05:22:55 +0000

Hi,

I have a difficult need. I would like to move all questions from a particular category to a different Q2A installation. Fortunately the userbase is same and sharing the same user table. So, if I just do a Database import for the table - dumping and doing insert - would this be fine? What will happen to "postid" if there are duplicates. For simplicity I can consider moving only questions so there is no longer a need to preserve the same postid.

Any Easy Way To Add Questions In Bulk Within Category

Thu, 07 Apr 2016 15:07:52 +0000

I am Looking For A Easy Way To Add Questions In Bulk Form Admin Panel .(Like Below Image) .Or Some

One Please Tell Me a Easy Way To Add Questions In Bulk)

load questions answeres from csv

Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:01:55 +0000

is there a plugin which enable me to upload questions and answers from outside source like csv file?

I saw that this question was asked in the past but i couldn't find the right answer (i saw a backup plug-in).

I am not a programmer and i am looking for a friendly solution

Thanks

Is there a way to bulk add registered users?

Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:03:49 +0000

Hi, I want to create Q&A website for personal purposes (not publicly availbale) but I want to bulk register users so non tech savy ones wont have to do it. All users would have the same password. Is there a way to do this? Also I would like to make a dropdown list of all registered users from which users could select their user name and at a click of a button log in. I did similar thing for OSQA system but I decided to do this website with Question2Answer.

On OSQA, I basiclly made form like this:

<form method="post" action="http://www.website.com/user/local/login/">

<select name="username">

<option value="User1">User1</option>

<option value="User2">User2</option>

</select>

<input type="hidden" name="password" value="password" />

<input type="submit" value="Login!">

</form>

Could something similar be done with Q2A?

Thank you.

Migrating OSQA xml backup to new Q2A installation

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 09:34:16 +0000

Hi Q2A community,

I have a backup of an OSQA site that I used to run back in 2011. The backup is in XML format with a structure of files, e.g:

[xsd/]
badges.xml
CloseReasons.xml
Comments2Votes.xml
FlatPages.xml
Messages.xml
MessageTypes.xml
ModeratorMessages.xml
...
VoteTypes.xml

I'm planning to write some code that will loop through the Posts.xml file and restore all the data there, inserting each post as a single-line entry into qa_posts, with structure something along the line of:

(X, Q, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, 1, NULL, 2090122648, NULL, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, 1, NULL, [IPADDRESS], NULL, NULL, 0, 0, 0, [IPADDRESS], 1, 21553800000, 0, NULL, [TODAYSDATE], NULL, NULL, [TITLE], [CONTENT], [Tags seperated by commas])

The userID will be a generic administrator user with a name such as 'Community' or 'Robot' or something like that.

I could probably extend the script to also allow for users, but since it's been about a year since the site was live, I doubt many (any?) of the users will magically jump on the site and try to login again.

Before I delve into this and start writing code, has anyone already achieved what I'm about to attempt? Any pointers? Am I taking the right approach? I'd rather re-use some other code if someone has already done this succesfully.

Cheers.

Error 1146 after importing answers from Wordpress

Mon, 13 May 2013 07:13:30 +0000

I found this very great software, Question2Answer, and I have integrated it with my Wordpress website: all worked fine.

So I have imported, from my Wordpress site, about 1500 questions and 2500 answers into my Question2Answer, perfomed database maintenance, and everything seems to work fine except the following problem (I have a dedicated server and other my sites on the same server works fine)

I have the following error "Question2Answer failed query: SELECT qa_users.userid, handle, level FROM WHERE qa_users level> = 20 ORDER BY level DESC Error 1146: Table '. Qa_users' does not exist" if:

I do a search on the site (so I have replaced it with Google CSE)
I add a question
if recaptcha is active

Thanks in advance

The website is: http://www.aipsimed.org/risposte/

Import Questions From Spreadsheet

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:36:09 +0000

Is there a way to import a list of questions from a spreadsheet to get things started?

Reindex not working after massive import?

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 02:01:35 +0000

Hi all,

I'm using question2answer as a backend database for an ESL chatbot. I imported a lot of vocabulary and grammar related questions into the database via phpmyadmin, but even though it all seems to have indexed correctly, certain questions are not showing up in search results.

For example, "CONJUGATE" is used in over 14000 questions as part of the title AND as a tag (http://www.linguo.org/qa/tag/conjugate) but when you perform a search none of them appear (http://www.linguo.org/qa/search?q=conjugate)

What have I done wrong? Thanks

Should the reindex be done frequently?

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:56:10 +0000

I was wondering if the reindex from the admin panel has to be done frequently or if it should be taken care of automatically when new questions/answers/comments are added.

What raises my questions is that I've created a page to import question from a CSV file. It works fine, but search results are better after I manually do a reindex. I use $postid =qa_question_create(null, $questionuserid, null, null, $questiontext, $questiondetail, '', null,$questiontags, false, null,$questioncategoryid); and $answerid=qa_answer_create($answeruserid, null, null, $sampleanswer,'',null, false, null, $question); which I thought would take care of the indexing stuff for me.

For now, I just run a reindex after the import, but I want to be sure searching on my site is always working fine.

What's the best practice for importing the first questions and answers?

Sat, 14 May 2011 03:14:17 +0000

Hey,

I started a new Q2A site. I got some one to prewrite me 200 questions with 3 answers for each question.

I'm interested in registering 100 users, asking those 200 questions and answering them over time.

Here's the order that I'd like to do it:

3-6 (random number) new users a day that ask questions
6-18 (random number) answers per day from random users

What's the best practice to do it that it will look the most naturally?

Bulk upload 'quotes' are getting replaced by 'slash and quote'

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:54:18 +0000

Bulk upload 'quotes' are getting replaced by 'slash and quote'

getting replayed like this:
' --> '\
" --> "\

How to overcome this?

Bulk import of questions answers with category in beta 1.2?

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:43:55 +0000

We have a way to bulk import into db as per this link: http://www.question2answer.org/qa/1222/what-is-the-best-way-for-me-to-upload-lot-of-questions-to-the-db

In beta 1.2, category is introduced. So how to change the above script to import questions with category?

Any hint will help! :)