Importing Content

[martinjmurray]

Could anyone provide me with some advice on importing content? I have a HTML helpfile (actually a HTML file and then a collection of images) that one of my staff has been using but that I would now like to upload into my Wiki.

Is there an easy way to do this while retaining some of the structure of the file? Please bear in mind I know virtually nothing about HTML or Wiki's but have a functioning Deki Wiki install that I'm very happy with.

If I have to, I know I can get someone to just import each page on its own and create the correct structure as they go along, but this would take a couple of days (in my extimation).

Any suggestions to save time would be greatly appreciated.

[brigettek]

I'm not aware of an existing utility for automatically posting a HTML help file to Deki Wiki, although it would be very useful. You could create one using Deki Wiki API to automatically generate pages and post content to them:

curl -c cookies.txt http://username:password@deki-hayes/@api/deki/users/authenticate

curl -b cookies.txt -d @test.html -H "Content-type: text/plain" "http://deki-hayes/@api/deki/pages/=pagename/contents"

See these threads for more information on using the POST content API: http://forums.opengarden.org/showthread.php?t=342 and http://forums.opengarden.org/showthread.php?t=1061.

If you do decide to write such a script, please let us know and we'd love to share it with the community!