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jimmyjam

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ANSWERED - Changing contact type on 90K records
September 30, 2010, 07:26:32 pm
I created four sub-types of individual contact records, and added about 90K records that have sub-types:
  • Patient
  • Non-patient
  • Staff
  • Volunteer

Now my colleagues tell me they don't want our contact records to have sub-types. All individuals should be in a single bucket: "Individual".

My question is: can I run a SQL query in phpMyAdmin to revert all the individual contact records back to "Individual"?

Thanks,
James
« Last Edit: October 01, 2010, 05:01:45 am by jimmyjam »

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Re: Changing contact type on 90K records
October 01, 2010, 01:05:35 am
Do you have any other data specific to contact sub type ?
If not the you can fire query to set contact sub type to null in civicrm_contact table. Make db backup before you do any db operation.

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Re: Changing contact type on 90K records
October 01, 2010, 04:12:39 am
Thanks, Kurund.

No, I don't have any data that is specific to the sub-types, and will definitely do a backup of the DB before running a query.

Can you help me translate "select all individual contact records and set the sub-type to null" into a SQL query? I am a SQL noob.

Thanks,
James

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Re: Changing contact type on 90K records
October 01, 2010, 04:25:49 am
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UPDATE  civicrm_contact SET  contact_sub_type = NULL;

This should work.

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Re: Changing contact type on 90K records
October 01, 2010, 05:00:26 am
awesome. thanks, kurund.

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