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Rob McCausland

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Importing results in a small "Contact" text file being downloaded, but no import
February 23, 2011, 02:56:07 pm
I'm trying to import a csv file (saved from Excel both as a plain csv file and as a csv/windows file): 455 rows, 39 columns.

I get all the way through Step 3, then when I click ok to import, a Firefox pop-up window comes up asking me if I want to download the file "contact" from the internet.  (Screen-cap attached.) Clicking yes brings me a 28k empty plain text file.  Yes or no, the import hangs at 0%.  In Safari, I get a screen of coded text - and again, no imports.

Haven't seen anything describing such behavior in the forums - can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!.

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« Last Edit: February 23, 2011, 04:10:00 pm by Rob McCausland »

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Re: Importing results in a small "Contact" text file being downloaded, but no import
February 23, 2011, 09:08:26 pm
I think I figured this one out, pretty much by going through and importing one column at a time.  Seems my integer field for population was formatted with the thousands separator.  Once I reformatted it, the weirdness went away.

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Re: Importing results in a small "Contact" text file being downloaded, but no import
February 24, 2011, 07:08:27 pm
He he! I've just noticed the exact same problem!

I'm surprised this one hasn't come out in the wash earlier. At least (non-accidental) techies are on to it now.
« Last Edit: February 24, 2011, 07:10:15 pm by SweetTooth »

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Re: Importing results in a small "Contact" text file being downloaded, but no import
February 24, 2011, 08:31:24 pm

can you please file an issue, we'll fix it for the 3.4 release so that the error is displayed on the browser rather than an html page download

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Re: Importing results in a small "Contact" text file being downloaded, but no import
February 25, 2011, 04:09:47 am

Filed.

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-7633

Please verify that I've filed that right, I'm a nooblet at filing bug issues.
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