I wrote a small tool to import K2 content from a CSV file and to export K2 data to a CSV file.
www.individual-it.net/en/Joomla/

Its possible to import all fields including "extra fields", userids, images, tags, galleries, categories and attachments.

The file must have a heading row. Text delimiter: ' " ' field separator: ','
For "Multiple Select" Fields use also "," to separate the options e.g.: "option 1, option 3"

To have a example-file to first an export and check the documentation .

Here is user manual
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If you have problems:

1. check the old thread in the forum
2. check if you use the most actual version
3. check the minimum requirements
4. post here if you still have a problem - and report:
   • the joomla version
   • the OS version
   • the K2 version
   • the K2 Import / Export tool version
   • the exact problem ("It doesn't work" - doesn't help anybody)

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Hi,
I do not follow how to use this tool
1.install new K2
2.install importing tool
and now what???

I followed your instruction page,how ever, what are the steps??

to make csv from what? from my joomla articles?
please advice about the steps importing joomla items/users and so on into fresh K2
regards

Hi,
please read the documentation: www.individual-it.net/Instructions-for-K2-Import-Component.html

You basically can create some items in K2 and the go to Components -> K2 Import / Export and export your existing items then you would have example file.
Or you check the example file in the documentation.

Individual IT wrote: Hi,
please read the documentation: www.individual-it.net/Instructions-for-K2-Import-Component.html

You basically can create some items in K2 and the go to Components -> K2 Import / Export and export your existing items then you would have example file.
Or you check the example file in the documentation.

Hi,
I read the instruction page.
I uploaded the sample CSV that you gave but than I got like 5 sample categories and 5 sample items,all users was imported and 2 user groups: registered and site owner,thats it. now what I have to do in order to get the site categories and items???
2. can this tool work also on j1.7? that can save me work since I migrated the site to j1.7 (but still have j1.5)
regards

sorry I do not understand your problem.
When you upload and import the CSV you should have new items in K2.

The extension just works with Joomla 1.5 and K2 2.4.x

any plans to update to 2.5?

William White wrote: any plans to update to 2.5?

Yes I'm going to do that - but as always I cannot tell a date :-)

Are they somewhere informations about how the DB changed between 2.4 and 2.5?
and are there differences between the versions of Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.7?

I havent seen any documentation on this yet. Guess we will have to take the installation scripts of 2.5 apart to see if there are any modify table's in it and also if there is script to detect if upgrading or not

hi,
after installing the components, an error

Fatal error: Class JButtonUpload contains an abstract method and must therefore be declared abstract or implement the remaining methods (JButton:: fetchButton) in / home/mysite/public_html/administrator/components/com_k2import/button/upload.php on line 59

PHP Built On FreeBSD cp42.agava.net 7.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p3 #5: Wed Sep 28 22:16:19 UTC 2011 [email protected]:/opt/usr/obj/opt/usr/src/sys/XEON i386
Database Version 5.0.92-log
Database Collation utf8_general_ci
PHP Version 5.3.5
Web Server Apache
WebServer to PHP Interface cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version Joomla! 1.7.3 Stable [ Ember ] 14-Nov-2011 14:00 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version Joomla Platform 11.2.0 Stable+Modified [ Omar ] 27-Jul-2011 00:00 GMT
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
K2 v2.5.1

At the moment the extension works just with Joomla 1.5