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[Qvack]

I have a small and quite vB4 board that's attached to a fairly large custom written PHP/FileMaker community to convert. (I have more things to look into but it's pretty much a done decision). I intend to purchase the full IPS suite and have them do the vB migration but I have a lot of work to move the other content myself.

My hope and expectation is to:
1) purchase the suite
2) install and activate the license for 'real' suite - this will NOT be in the live domain but will be on the same server
3) install and activate the test suite using the test key in a third domain on the same server
4) configure the IPS suite using it for the entire site
5) have Invision migrate the data from the vB forum - probably about 1 month after purchase
6) I will migrate the other content into the IPS suite
7) move the IPS suite to the live domain

Can someone confirm if this sounds correct and confirm I can get the migration about a month after purchase?

Thanks much!

Also most of my traffic is to pages with paid and unpaid listings. I either need to figure out how to keep them dominate within the new site or I would REALLY prefer moving them into the IPS suite. Can anyone recommend how I may best be able to integrate this type of pages?

Thanks much again!

[bfarber]

Hello,

Your procedure should be fine, however I do want to note that we do not actually perform the conversion for you. We provide a free set of converters *(which we do provide support for, should something not work correctly) and you will need to perform the conversion yourself. It is very painless - you install the converters into IP.Board just like you would any other application (Blog, Gallery, etc.) and then you run the conversion tools from the ACP afterwards. Alternatively, if you do not feel comfortable doing this yourself, there are some third parties that will provide this service for you at a small charge. You can find them here:

http://community.inv...m_services.html

As for the page you linked as an example, if you are wanting to move completely over to the IPS suite, I would recommend using IP.Content to create a custom database for this sort of thing. You can create a database "products", create categories for country, state, and so on, and then add the products into the appropriate categories like you would any other categorical data listing. You can then fully customize the templates to recreate a similar look, or you can let IP.Content use its default templates to display the data.

[Qvack]

Thanks Brandon. I'm still getting my feet wet. I'm a novice in the area of forum and site admin but getting around in the back end of your suite seems a lot easier than doing so in vBs.

[shazhi]

thank you