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3 big pain on my side:

For practical purpose UK should be handled like GB instead of rejecting country not exist (long story about northern ireland, bottom line, no one uses GB over here, but UK).


If there is only one column in the css, try the other separator instead of trying to create a table with a super long column name and crashing DB error.

If the column name in the csv is > 32, truncate it to avoid the import to crash on a db error.

add a field "source" in the last step of the import (when you choose the group & tags). so you can add "import list X" and put it as the source of the new contacts.

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Scalability and speed has to be improved IMHO. My organisation often has to import just shy of 200,000 records in one go, to have to do 200,000 broken down into 10,000 batches is a pain, especially if you forgot where you were or forgot to assign 30,000 of them to a group etc!

Ultimately, something that can split the job between processors would also be good.

If I have a box with 16 cores and I'm importing several million records, I would want at least 8 cores on the job.

Some people might think a million records is a lot, but during a Euro Election, a Euro region has millions and I wouldn't be surprised if around the world, there are cicrumstances where political parties end up having to import tens of millions within the space of a week.

You could argue that we should try and cut down the data before we load it into CiviCRM, but in my world, CiviCRM is supposed to be doing everything so I can centralise my operation.

Lobo,

My organisation does raise a nice sum online.

Sadly, none of it is through a CiviCRM setup. We've been frustrated by various problems (most not civiCRM related) and now we are at the last hurdle.

If we solve this last problem, I believe the amount of money that we raise online would at least double and then I would be able to approach my treasurer with a view to part funding some CiviCRM projects.

This is all that stands in our way :

http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,16972.0.html

If I can get the gross amounts to appear on our CiviCRM installation...we're away...and to us this means anywhere between $500 - $3000 in extra revenue a day, who knows!