[turba] RE: Import Turba Contacts

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Mike Bydalek <mbydalek at zivix.com>:

> > Can anyone help me solve this problem??
> After taking just over 1000 contacts and importing them into Turba, I
> found out
> some interesting things that I still have to go over and figure out
> "why?" they
> were happening.
>
> For one, Turba is REALLY picky about the formatting of each field.  For
> example,
> using CSV, if there was an entry for "Address" without a comma, it
> wouldn't
> like it.  If there was a phone number with improper formatting, Turba
> would
> kick back errors.
>
> All I can really say is to try and comb through your data as best as you
> can
> (with 1000 it took me forever) and make sure that each field is properly
> formatted.  I broke up my data into 50-100 blocks and went from there.
>
> One thing that I think would help would be for Turba to say something
> along the
> lines "The field <whatever> is invalid on line <whatever>" or at least
> "There
> is an error in Record <whatever>" to help steer towards a problem.

The problem is that most of this is done by the File_CSV package or the
fgetcsv function. We have no influence on their behaviour.

Jan.

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