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The references I have found to skins seem to be somewhat old. We are looking for simple skinning solutions to askbot that do not require going into too much code.

Not 100% sure what we want/can get in terms of skinning, (I am not the UX member of the team, just the one in charge of telling them what is achievable), so I was hoping we could look through some pre-created skins and pick one to customize (aka replace color pallet and images for our own branding).

Is there a library of user-created skins out there somewhere? otherwise, would people be willing to share theirs?

I need to enable comments of over 1000 characters. The settings say I can go up to 2048, but when I set max comment length to 2000, it stops entering text at 1000 characters, even though it says I still have 1000 characters left.

Is there another setting I need to adjust?

I am also trying to get around the apparent 1000 character cap. Any progress on this?

We have a user base that we want to share between a wiki and a forum, as well as for our company support (aka newsletters/release announcements and to keep track of the size/activity of the community). Our goal with LDAP was to use it as a simple shared authentication server for all of these purposes.

So to use ldap for our askbot, we would have to add the users manually any time a new person wants to join?

Trying to get ldap working on askbot 0.7.49.

I modified the settings in settings/LDAP_SETTINGS and removed the other login options in settings/LOGIN_PROVIDERS but now I have no options when I try to sign in, and there is no "register" button for new users.

Is there an extra step I am missing?

I have installed an askbot server and have been working on testing out our conversion method for getting data from our old forum into this one. By virtue of this, the askbot is currently cluttered with trash users/questions and is going to be a bit worse before I am done.

Is there an easy utility/command for wiping/truncating the database and starting over?

A closer look at the traceback showed that the email settings are not configured at all for either system... though why did it originally work on the local system...?

We set up 2 askbot forums, one locally, and one on an Amazon EC2 instance. On the Amazon EC2 askbot, I get this error any time I attempt to create a user:

IOError at /account/signup/

On the local one, we were originally able to make users, but when that server was shut down and moved, we lost that capability and now get the above error.

Why are we getting this? Is there something simple that I am missing?

I can tack on the longer traceback if that would be helpful...

To expand on my previous comment about the data format: I have a list of python dictionaries generated from an MBOX data structure. The dictionary is, right now, in the format [{'subject': '...', 'From': '...', 'To': '...', 'text': '...'}, ...] where 'text' is the actual body of the question/response. I am working on distinguishing threads from these messages, which shouldn't be too difficult. What I am looking for is the correct format to put the message/thread data into after I've separated it all out.

Right now? I exported the emails with the data (as google groups does not have an export function) and I parsed them into a python dictionary.

Working on migrating from a google group to askbot forum, and trying to find the best format to convert the data to so that I can import it.

All I need to keep are the messages(with poster, and message text as well as the parent message if applicable) and the users (name and email)

Are there any simple formats/tools I can use to import this data?

I have looked at dumping the database and trying to copy the format but... that was not terribly effective. If there is good documentation for these dumps that I could not find, which would make adding things to it easier, that would also work.

Thanks!

I have two versions of askbot on two different computers, and neither of them can run an export. Backstory: We are converting our google groups forum to an askbot forum. I have data dumps of the google groups information, and would like to get a dump of our askbot forum so that I can convert our data to that format and re-import it.

We have 2 askbot servers set up: one locally, and one in the cloud. When I try to run "python manage.py dumpdata > data.json" or "python manage.py dump_forum" I get the following error (on both systems):

django.db.utils.DatabaseError: relation "robots_url" does not exist LINE 1: ...CT "robots_url"."id", "robots_url"."pattern" FROM "robots_ur...

...What am I doing wrong?